The Marriage of Bette and Boo

The Marriage of Bette and Boo
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2017-09-12
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0802188915

A painfully funny, Obie Award-winning play about the tragedy and comedy of family life. Never have marriage and the 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 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 bewildered attempts to provide a semblance of hearth and home, are portrayed with a poignant compassion that enriches and enlarges the play, and makes clear why Christopher Durang has become one of the great names in American theater. “One of the most explosively funny American dramatists.”—Newsweek

Baby with the Bathwater

Baby with the Bathwater
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1984
Genre: American drama
ISBN: 9780822200840

THE STORY: As the play begins Helen and John gaze proudly at their new offspring, a bit disappointed that it doesn't speak English and too polite to check its sex. So they decide that the child is a girl and name it Daisy--which leads to all manner

Why Torture is Wrong, and the People who Love Them

Why Torture is Wrong, and the People who Love Them
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2011
Genre: Man-woman relationships
ISBN: 9780822224013

THE STORY: Christopher Durang turns political humor upside down with this raucous and provocative satire about America's growing homeland insecurity. WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM tells the story of a young woman suddenly in crisis:

Naomi in the Living Room & Other Short Plays

Naomi in the Living Room & Other Short Plays
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1998
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822214489

THE STORIES: NAOMI IN THE LIVING ROOM. Naomi, when visited by John and Johnna, her son and daughter-in-law, is alternately friendly and insulting. Johnna copes her best, but when John changes his clothes to look like Johnna, things start to unravel

Christopher Durang Explains it All for You

Christopher Durang Explains it All for You
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1990
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780802132321

Few playwrights have explored as relentlessly as Christopher Durang the pain and confusion of everyday life--or made us laugh so uproariously at the results. Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, the center of a storm of controversy for its satire of misplaced trust in religious authority," remains as powerful today as when it was originally produced. The excruciatingly funny The Nature and Purpose of the Universe asks whether Eleanor Mann's Job-like suffering is really her fault, while Titanic takes us into the heart of children's anger with their parents and parents' manipula-tion of their children. In Beyond Therapy, two horrifyingly human therapists pursue their own needs at the expense of the most mismatched couple ever to meet through a personal ad. Also including 'Dentity Crisis and The Actor's Nightmare, this collection demonstrates that laughter is the best surgery, slicing through prejudice and hypocrisy, cutting out dead beliefs and inflamed opinions. These dark comedies, lit by lightning bolts of truth and humor, are among the most illuminating in American drama, by "one of the most explosively funny American dramatists" (Newsweek). Includes: The Nature and Purpose of the Universe 'Dentity Crisis Titanic The Actor's Nightmare Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You Beyond Therapy

Betty's Summer Vacation

Betty's Summer Vacation
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2000
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822217664

THE STORY: Betty is looking forward to her summer share at the ocean. But Trudy, whom she knows only slightly, chatters incessantly; and then there are the other housemates--sexy lout Buck, who's pathologically on the make with women all the time, a

Golden Child

Golden Child
Author: David Henry Hwang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1999
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822216827

THE STORY: In the winter of 1918, progressive Chinese landowner Eng Tieng-Bin's interest in Westernization and Christianity sets off a power struggle among his three wives, which will determine the future of his daughter, Ahn, Tieng-Bin's favorite,

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You ; And, The Actor's Nightmare

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You ; And, The Actor's Nightmare
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1982
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822210351

THE STORIES: SISTER MARY IGNATIUS EXPLAINS IT ALL FOR YOU. Sister Mary Ignatius, a teaching nun who is much concerned with sin in all of its various forms, delivers a cautionary lecture to her charges. One of them, a precocious little boy named Tho

Laughing Wild

Laughing Wild
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1996
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822215288

THE STORY: In the first section of the play, a Woman enters and embarks on an increasingly frenetic (and funny) recital of the perils and frustrations of daily life in urban America--waiting in line, rude taxi drivers, inane talk shows and the selfi

Betty

Betty
Author: David A. Robertson
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2021-02-24
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 155379995X

Helen Betty Osborne, known as Betty to her closest friends and family, dreamed of becoming a teacher. She left home to attend residential school and later moved to The Pas, Manitoba, to attend high school. On November 13, 1971, Betty was abducted and brutally murdered by four young men. Initially met with silence and indifference, her tragic murder resonates loudly today. Betty represents one of almost 1,200 Indigenous women in Canada who have been murdered or gone missing. This is her story. Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story has been selected as a White Raven 2016 by the International Youth Library for its annual catalogue of book recommendations in the field of international children’s and youth literature. This year’s White Ravens catalogue contains 200 titles in 42 languages from 60 countries.