Bette can't make babies. Boo can't stop drinking. The in-laws can't stop shouting, and Catholic priest Father Donnally spends more time frying like bacon than counseling his couple. Maybe they should have stopped at the altar.
Covering three decades of love, loss, alcohol, infighting and a double dose of psychotic in-laws, The Marriage of Bette and Boo plays out in a flash of quick, hilarious and heart-tugging scenes as master playwright Christopher Durang chronicles one couple's painfully dysfunctional union.
Narrated by the playwright himself at the1985 Joseph Papp Public Theatre premiere, The Marriage of Bette and Boo went on to win three Obie Awards for Ensemble Performance, Direction and Playwriting.