Less than a year after battling as mother and daughter in Backyard Renaissance Theatre’s production of Tracy Letts’ “August: Osage County,” Deborah Gilmour Smyth and Jessica John are at odds again,…
The cast of Backyard Renaissance Theatre’s “The Beauty Queen of Leenane,” from left, MJ Sieber, Deborah Gilmour Smyth, Nick Daugherty, back right, and Jessica John. Less than a year after battling as mother and daughter in Backyard Renaissance Theatre’s production of Tracy Letts’ “August: Osage County,” Deborah Gilmour Smyth and Jessica John are at odds again, this time in Martin McDonagh’s dark and dysfunction-cursed play “The Beauty Queen of Leenane.
“The Beauty Queen of Leenane,” last produced in San Diego in 2001 at San Diego Repertory Theatre, will be directed by Backyard Artistic Director Frances Gercke. Also in the cast are MJ Sieber as Maureen’s lover, Pato, and Nick Daugherty as Pato’s younger brother Ray. John says she asked Gilmour Smyth about the possibility of playing Mag shortly after “August: Osage County” finished its engagement last fall.
“Speaking as a middle-aged woman, I think it’s interesting that both of these playwrights are male and that they tapped into something that I can connect to,” John said. “You see your youth and unfortunately a lot of times for women they see it dwindle and they still want somebody to see them and see their value. There’s a kind of beautiful vulnerability to that.
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