Directed in a subtle, crafty manner and acted with enthusiasm and invention, it’s an affecting, memorable night.īeauty Queen was first performed in Galway, Ireland, in 1996, directed by Hynes, a co-production of Druid and England’s Royal Court Theatre. But the work, and the production, also has jarring plot twists, keen moments of high and low comedy, earthy sensuality and heartrending torment. The Harvey’s renovation, finished in 1987, left the space with purposely “distressed” (unpainted) walls, and this corresponds nicely with Beauty Queen’s one set representing the grungy home of angry, elderly Mag Folan and her passionate, lonely 40- year-old daughter Maureen, in the provincial isolated Irish town of Leenane. The play’s premise of an aging virginal daughter restricted by her demanding Mom, is somewhat stock, even predictable, an Irish version of The Glass Menagerie, complete with Gentleman Caller. It also presents community-based classes and shows and the yearly Next Wave Festival, featuring more experimental contemporary work from younger, up-and-coming artists.Ĭurrently, the celebrated Druid theater company of Ireland is making its BAM debut at The Harvey, with a revival of Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane, directed by Druid’s Artistic Director Garry Hynes. A mix of US and International productions in limited-runs have been a staple of BAM for decades and the facilities have presented plays, dance and concerts from, among many others, Philip Glass, Peter Brook, Robert Wilson, Giorgio Strehler, Mark Morris, Ingmar Bergman, and Laurie Anderson. Former Development Officer Karen Brooks Hopkins became President of BAM in 1999 and retired in 2015 Katy Clark is now in that post. At present, BAM has expanded to three admired and diverse facilities: the Howard Gilman Opera House (2109 seats), housed in the impressive Peter Jay Sharp Building the Sharp building also contains the Rose Cinemas, showing domestic and international films the Harvey Theater (formerly The Majestic, re-named after Lichtenstein, 874 seats) and the Fisher Building, with a 250-seat Black Box. It took a little longer for Brooklyn as a whole to follow, but it did. Few theatergoers would travel from Manhattan to Brooklyn in those days, fearing crime and the barren surroundings.īut in 1967, with the appointment of Harvey Lichtenstein as executive director, BAM began a revitalization. In the post-World War II period, the borough of Brooklyn, like much of New York City, went into a tailspin BAM went down with it. BAM reopened in 1908 and offered some productions of the Metropolitan Opera, with Enrico Caruso, et al, until 1921. In 1903, the original building burned down and the complex moved to what was then the upscale neighborhood of Fort Greene, near downtown Brooklyn it remains there today. in Brooklyn Heights, New York, it presented opera, concerts, and theater in a 2,200 seat mainstage, with artists including Ellen Terry and Edwin Booth. When it was originally established in 1861 on Montague St. The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is considered America’s oldest performing arts center. I know there's a lot more that we could have done.The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh So (it) probably lies somewhere in the middle there. They were shots that they made through good ball movement, good offense by them to find those other shots that we probably didn't communicate well enough and didn't contest well enough. "It's hard to overcome when a team makes 25 3s. "Obviously 25 3s is a lot of 3s," Donovan said. The positive 25-point differential was the most in any second quarter in team history, and the 44 points the second-most in a second quarter in franchise history. The Nets outscored the Bulls 44-19 in the second quarter and led 63-55 at halftime. The Bulls had a 36-19 advantage at the end of the first quarter, in which they led by as much as 21. If you do do that, that would be the worst thing to do." "And to me, I think there's, one, a lot to learn through adversity and, two, the solution to adversity would not be to shut down. "I've always talked about adversity and challenges and difficulties," Bulls coach Billy Donovan said. The Bulls dropped to 5-13 with their fourth straight loss. Coby White scored 23 points, and Zach LaVine and. So collectively we kind of got engaged and picked it up together."ĭeMar DeRozan led Chicago with 27 points. "But we had other players who were playing aggressive, being aggressive, doing the right thing, rebounding, pushing the ball, and the tempo.
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