Anna Manahan was one of the great ladies of the Irish theatre, an actress ample in both personality and girth who won international acclaim with her performance in Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane. For this she won a Tony Award for Featured Actress in 1998. The blistering mother-daughter drama was first seen at the Druid Theatre, Galway, in February 1996, transferring the following month to the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs,...
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