The marriage of Bette and Boo brings together two of the maddest families in creation in a portrait album of family life’s uncertainties and confusion. Bereaved by miscarriages, undermined by their families, separated by alcoholism, assaulted by disease, and mystified by their priest, Bette and Boo, in their bewildered attempts to provide a semblance of hearth and home, are presented with a poignant /5(). The Marriage of Bette and Boo. Laughing Wild Christopher Durang: 27 Short Plays. Introduction by Howard Stein Numerous notes by the author throughout Essay on Sister Mary controversy by author Plays included: Mrs. Sorken. For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls. A Stye of the Eye. Nina in the Morning. Wanda's Visit. Business Lunch at the Russian Tea Room. The Marriage of Bette and Boo follows the zany, turbulent, heartbreaking marriage of Bette Brennan and Boo Hudlocke. Bette and Boo marry and set about having the large, happy family that Bette always dreamed of. The arrival of their first son, Matt, is soon overshadowed by a succession of stillborns. Bette is heartbroken. Boo starts to drink; Bette starts to nag.
"The Marriage of Bette and Boo," Christopher Durang's dark comedy, has Kate Jennings Grant and Christopher Evan Welch, center, in a Roundabout show at the Laura Pels. Christopher Durang, Durang. Never have marriage and the family been more scathingly or hilariously savaged than in this brilliant black comedy. The marriage of Bette and Boo brings together two of the maddest families in creation in a portrait album of family life's uncertainties and confusion. Bereaved by miscarriages, undermined by their. THE MARRIAGE OF BETTE AND BOO CHRISTOPHER DURANG RICHARD BUTLER NOVEMBER 3 THROUGH NOVEM by Christopher Durang directed by Richard Butler An illuminating, hilariously dark dissection of marriage and the family in contemporary America, by Christopher Durang, theatre's master satirist. Conveyed in a series of dazzlingly inventive interconnected scenes, the play moves wickedly on.
The marriage of Bette and Boo brings together two of the maddest families in creation in a portrait album of family life’s uncertainties and confusion. Bereaved by miscarriages, undermined by their families, separated by alcoholism, assaulted by disease, and mystified by their priest, Bette and Boo, in their bewildered attempts to provide a semblance of hearth and home, are presented with a poignant compassion that enriches and enlarges the play, and places Christopher Durang squarely in. Play Synopsis: The Marriage Of Bette And Boo. Christopher Durang is one of the masters of modern dark comedy, and his acidic and ironic style is at its pinnacle in The Marriage of Bette and Boo. This semi-autobiographical play deals with the pain of living in a broken and dysfunctional family. Durang, who also played the character of Matt in the original run of the show, deftly paints a grotesque and hilarious caricature of his own family, in which alcoholism and mental illness tore apart. MARRIAGE OF BETTE AND BOO by Christopher Durang. BETTE: Hurry up, Boo. I want to use the shower. (Speaks to the audience, who seems to be her great friend:) First I was a tomboy. I used to climb trees and beat up my brother Tom. Then I used to try to break my sister Joanie's voice box because she liked to sing.
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