Joe Hill-Gibbins’ ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’ returns to the Young Vic!

Friday, 15 July 2011

Genesis Fellow Joe Hill-Gibbins’ highly acclaimed sell-out revival of Martin McDonagh’s celebrated play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, returns this summer to the Young Vic. Further details below:

Young Vic, London

20 July – 3 September

020 7922 2922 • youngvic.org

The Beauty Queen Of Leenane established McDonagh’s reputation on its premiere at the Royal Court in 1996, winning him Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle awards and a Laurence Olivier Award nomination. It subsequently transferred to Broadway where it won a Tony Award for Best Play.

The production at the Young Vic marked the play’s first major London revival since its premiere run at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in 1996.

Press acclaim for Joe Hill-Gibbins’s production:
★★★★★  Evening Standard
★★★★★  Sunday Times
★★★★★  Sunday Express

Winner! Best New Play – Evening Standard, Critics’ Circle & Writers’ Guild

’A modern theatre classics’ – Sunday Express
‘Everyone should see this’ – Sunday Times

’A cracking revival’ – Evening Standard

’Comic brilliance’ – The Daily Telegraph
‘Blackly hilarious’ – The Independent