Critics who accuse McDonagh of paddywhackery miss the point. Beauty Queen’s authenticity is in its distortion
London Irish is a distinct cultural identity, especially as expressed through the sensibility of second-generation Irish artists that partly comprise it.been written by someone who is second-generation, working, as Graham Whybrow - the literary manager of the Royal Court noted at the time of its first production in 1997- ‘both within a tradition and against a mythology’.
The diasporic experience is layered and nuanced, and how identity is created - any identity - is an amalgam of inheritance, environment, invention and self-creation; but also a certain distortion. This distortion, I’d argue, is often where the interesting stuff happens, in the imaginative recreation of an experience not directly your own but still belonging to you in some indefinable way.
Tom Murphy and Anna Manahan in Druid's The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh. Photograph: Amelia Steinis a searing black comedy about bedpans, Complan and plunging arthritic hands into vats of burning oil; a blistering story of two women going at it like. On another, it’s about wanting and not getting, the hallucinatory intensity of rural isolation, and the poison of hope when ambition is thwarted.
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