The Marriage Of Bette And Boo
by Christopher Durang

Off-Broadway
The Marriage Of Bette And Boo Book Cover
The Marriage Of Bette And Boo Cover

Highlights

120 mins 1980s Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Comedy

Awards & Recognition

Obie Award

Winner! 1985 Obie Award for Playwriting Winner! 1985 Dramatists Guild Hull Warriner Award

Synopsis

Book by Christopher Durang, Durang, Christopher

Press Reviews

"Extraordinarily delicate black-comic art… balancing, modulating, controlling the giddiness of Bette and Boo is a sympathetic, wondering sadness."

— The Village Voice

"Durang has the ability of making the real absurd and the absurd real."

— New York Post

"Once more he is demonstrating his special knack for wrapping life’s horrors in the primary colors of absurdist comedy."

— The New York Times

"Christopher Durang, the humorist and satirist, has rarely written anything funnier or more serious than his mordant comedy The Marriage of Bette and Boo… a brimming cornucopia of brilliant lines."

— The New Yorker

Characters

Character
BETTE BRENNAN
MARGARET BRENNAN

Her mother

PAUL BRENNAN

Her father

JOAN BRENNAN

Her sister

EMILY BRENNAN

Her sister

BOO HUDLOCKE
KARL HUDLOCKE

His father

SOOT HUDLOCKE

His mother

FR. DONNALLY

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DOCTOR
MATT

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Publication

Year 1998
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822207368
ISBN-10 0822207362

The Marriage Of Bette And Boo is a American comedy play written by Christopher Durang and published by Dramatists Play Service (1998).

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