Synopsis

Never have marriage and 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 families, separated by alcoholism, assaulted by disease, and mystified by their priest, Bette and Boo, in their attempts to provide a semblance of hearth of home, are seen with a poignant compassion that enriches and enlarges the play and places Christopher Durang squarely in the forefront of American Dramatists.