THEATRE + COMEDY

Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company is proud to present, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, by Christopher Durang.

Directed by Mildred’s veterans, Greg Dean and Jennifer Decker, who will both also perform and design for the show, this rarely seen in Houston gem will run October 14-23, 2010 at Midtown Art Center. The play also features Seán Patrick Judge, Mark Roberts, Julie Boneau, Mark Carrier, Elizabeth Seabolt-Esparza, Sara Jo Dunstan and Amy Warren.

The Marriage of Bette and Boo is considered by many to be Durang’s best play to date. Admittedly biographical, the play is based on his parents’ marriage. A black comedy, told in 33 (mostly) quick scenes, Durang won an Obie award for playwriting, later that year, the play also won the prestigious Dramatists Guild Hull Warriner Award.

Christopher Durang, the humorist and satirist, has rarely written anything funnier or more serious than his mordant comedy "The Marriage of Bette and Boo." …[Durang] has perfected the art of turning bitterness into comedy without losing its edge. — Edith Oliver, The New Yorker

…his best play yet, a sardonic, absurdist comedy which explores the disintegrating relationship and dreams of a perfect 1950s couple. … there’s one other wonderful thing about this play which we should all take to heart, and that’s absolution through laughter. — Michael Sommers, New York Native

…extraordinarily delicate black-comic art… balancing, modulating, controlling the giddiness of "Bette and Boo" is a sympathetic, wondering sadness. — Julius Novick, The Village Voice