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Critic Robert Brustein described The Marriage of Bette and Boo as an "achingly funny assault on the vanities, inanities and insanities of family life." By the author of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, its daring comedy inspires the same...
The Marriage of Bette and Boo takes place in 1950s suburbia. Still unmarried in his early 30s, Boo is wallowing in his alcoholic father’s shadow, when he meets Bette, who in her 20s is still worrying about her high school popularity. Insecure and...
In short frenetic scenes, at once daringly stark and light-hearted, we see their marriage careen out of control in the context of their families: Boo’s brutal father (Karl) and falsely cheerful mother (Soot), Bette’s sisters (neurotic Emily, snide...
Matt is Bette and Boo’s only child, the scholarly son who tries to make sense of it all by telling us the story. His attempts to understand become increasingly desperate, until he finally makes peace with the fact of his family, in a tender final scene.
