The Beauty Queen of Leenane Trailer - Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh

[MondoBeno]

This is what "Grey Gardens" would've been like if the Beales were living in a tiny two room house.

[lyceumtheatre]

@MondoBeno :-)

[MrSweeneyTodd]

This is really great music, what's the song?

[lyceumtheatre]

@MrSweeneyTodd Hi there, not sure what it's called - it was written specially for the trailer by one of the guys at our production company, Enterprise Screen.

Will try to find out if he ever named it, or if it's just called "Beauty Queen music" or something along those lines. Glad you liked it though! :-)

[Blibish]

We are doing it in English. I've never seen that film 'In Bruges'!! Heard great reports of it.

[lyceumtheatre]

@Blibish Yeah, it's great - very dark (as you'd expect from Martin McDonagh) but very, very funny :-)

[Blibish]

It's in Brussels. A small theatre in an area called Schaerbeek. A very intimate space - audience are very close which is what I like.

[lyceumtheatre]

@Blibish Cool, that'll be ideal for a play like Beauty Queen. Is the play being done in English or translated to French/Flemish?

Also if you're in Belgium, then 'In Bruges' would be even more worth watching I think! :-)

[Blibish]

Thanks for replying. I'm having difficulty in finding the mother at the moment, so am doing a lot of research.

[lyceumtheatre]

@Blibish It'll come, don't worry! Sure it'll be great - where is your production?

[Blibish]

I'm rehearsing this play at the moment. I am playing the mother! I love this play and am so looking forward to performing it.

[lyceumtheatre]

@Blibish Nice - it's a great role, lots of fun to play! She's SO infuriating! ;-)

[Fas6pa]

I was laughing the whole way through... I guess it is sort of tragic, but it is quite more funny.

[lyceumtheatre]

@Fas6pa Thanks, glad you enjoyed it - yeah, it's a funny play (both funny ha-ha and funny-odd!) So many laughs but behind it all there's this heartbreaking tragedy. He's quite a writer is Martin McDonagh - have you ever seen In Bruges? That's one of his, very, very, very funny but some tough moments too

[lyceumtheatre]

@Kentagonc Thanks very much, glad you liked it!

Yeah, there's a lot of complex emotions and motivations in there, Cara and Nora did a brilliant job (Cara earning a nomination for a CATS award in fact)

Good luck with your competition, let us know how it goes! :-)

[MondoBeno]

Aristotle once said "drama and tragedy should be restricted to topics about the upper classes, while comedy should be about topics of the lower classes."

But as we see here, tragedies about the lower classes are the most tragic.

[lyceumtheatre]

@MondoBeno They certainly can be yeah - that said, there's always classics like Romeo and Juliet... which we just happen to have coming up soon - check out our trailer on our channel

[lyceumtheatre]

Cool, good luck! It is indeed a very good play indeed.

Hope the exam goes well, cheers!