The Marriage of Bette and Boo

by Christopher Durang

Overview

A painfully funny, Obie Award-winning play about the tragedy and comedy of family life.

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 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 portrayed with a poignant compassion that enriches and enlarges the play, and makes clear why Christopher Durang has become one of the great names in American theater.

“One of the most explosively funny American dramatists.”—Newsweek

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802188915
Publisher:	Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication date:	02/26/2020
Series:	Books That Changed the World
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	109
File size:	836 KB

Editorial Reviews

THE MARRIAGE OF BETTE AND BOO is the best play of a depressing season, but it would be an adornment to any season.

Village Voice

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

NY Times

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

NY Post

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.

New Yorker