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Coming Attractions
The Marriage of Bette and Boo
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About the show
Louisville Repertory Company
presents:
The Marriage of Bette & Boo
by Christopher Durang
At The Kentucky Center
"Once more he is demonstrating his special knack for
wrapping life's horrors in the primary colors of
absurdist comedy." —NY Times.
"…Durang has the ability of making the real absurd and
the absurd real." —NY Post.
"Christopher Durang, the humorist and satirist, has
rarely written anything funnier or more serious than
his mordant comedy THE MARRIAGE OF BETTE AND BOO…a
brimming cornucopia of brilliant lines." —The New
Yorker.
Winner of the Obie Award. A brilliant and coruscatingly
funny dissection of marriage and the family in
contemporary—and Catholic—America, by our theatre's
master satirist. A critical and popular success in its
production by New York's Public Theatre, the play is
both devastatingly perceptive and wildly comic as it
skewers its assorted victims with joyfully relentless
precision.!
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
drink; 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 includes a psychotic sister who
endures 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 dodges 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.
WHERE: The MeX Theatre at The Kentucky Center for the
Performing Arts
WHEN:
Thur, 6/17
8:00 pm
Fri, 6/18
8:00 pm
Sat, 6/19
8:00 pm
*Mon, 6/21
8:00 pm
Fri, 6/25
8:00 pm
Sat, 6/26
8:00 pm
Sun, 6/27
2:00 pm
TICKETS: **Tickets are $15, $10 for students, $10 for
groups of 10 or more
*Monday, June 21 special "Industry Night" pricing:
tickets are $10.00 for everyone!
Call 502.584.7777, visit
http://www.kentuckycenter.org/, or save ticket fees by
using
The Kentucky Center drive-through service just off Main
street!
**please note that the MeX will add a $1 ‘facility fee’
which will appear on your ticket as such.
Directed by Brian Walker
CAST
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BETTE BRENNAN: Amy Lewis
MARGARET BRENNAN: Kimberly Taylor-Peterson
PAUL BRENNAN: George R. Bailey
JOAN BRENNAN: Abby Braune
EMILY BRENNAN: Natalie Fields
BOO HUDLOCKE: Joe Hatfield
KARL HUDLOCKE: Craig Nolan Highley
SOOT HUDLOCKE: Becky LeCron
FATHER DONNALLY/
DOCTOR: Bryce Woodard
MATT: Todd Zeigler
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Theatre Information
Louisville Repertory Company
1208 Innis Court
Louisville, Kentucky 40204
(502) 561-1004
lrctheatre@insightbb.com
http://www.lourep.org/
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