the marriage of bette and boo

January 22-3, 2016

Play- Comedy

By: Christopher Durang

As the play begins, Bette and Boo are being united in matrimony, surrounded by their beaming families. But, as the further progress of their marriage is chronicled, it becomes increasingly clear that things are not working out quite as hoped for. The birth of their son is followed by a succession of stillborns; Boo takes to drinking; and their respective families are odd lots to say the least: His father is a sadistic tyrant, who refers to his wife as the dumbest woman in the world; while Bette's side of the family includes a psychotic sister who endures the lifelong agonies over her imagined transgressions and a senile father who mutters in unintelligible gibberish. For solace and counsel they all turn to Father Donnally, a Roman Catholic priest who doges their questions by impersonating (hilariously) a strip of frying bacon. Conveyed in a series of dazzlingly inventive interconnected scenes, the play moves wickedly on through three decades of divorce, alcoholism, madness and fatal illness- all treated with a farcical brilliance which, through the author's unique talent, mines the unlikely lodes of irony and humor residing in these ostensibly unhappy events.

Directed By: Jonathan McCarter

cast

Margaret: Elaine Quagliata

Paul: Paul Newell

Soot: Tonita Hamilton

Karl: Houston Horn

Bette: Liz Webb

Boo: Ryan Ladue

Matt: Danny Mullins

Father Donnally: Aaron Young

Emily: Lauren Knott

Joan: Laura Levine