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The Marriage of Bette and Boo is the classic Christopher Durang play: an absurdist comedy with dark undertones that satirizes the Catholic Church and people's ridiculous compulsions. Also characteristic of a Durang play is the complexity the production requires....

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Marriage Counseling

posted 12/24/08 @ 12:39 PM EST

As you tell it here in your article, the play can be easily subscribed to the absurd theatre genre without any doubt. I think that such a play would be very similar to the plays written by Jean Paul Sartre. He is a true master of absurd theatre. I will mention one example here from Sartre's plays: "The Flies".

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Penny Alverton

posted 2/19/09 @ 7:29 AM EST

The Marriage of Bette & Boo was first presented by the New York Shakespeare Festival (Joseph Papp, President) at the Public/Newman Theatre in New York City on May 16, 1985.

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