The Marriage of Bette and Boo

by Christopher Durang

November/December 2005
The Gallery Players, Brooklyn, NY

Wedding

Producer: Matt Schicker
Director: Heather Siobhan Curran
Set Design: Cully Long
Lighting Design: G. Benjamin Swope
Costume Design: Amy Elizabeth Bravo
Production Stage Manager: Jen Russo

Cast: Mike Durkin*, Daniel Haggard*, Erin Kate Howard, Matt Jared, E.C. Kelly*, Patricia Lavin, Laura Livingston*, Jill Michael, Maria Ryan, and Tom Weyburn.
*Member, Actors’ Equity Association

What I’m Most Proud Of: This is a dark, wacky play about twisted family relationships and how they effect the narrator, Matt, who is the stand in for Durang himself. This was the perfect show for us to produce at The Gallery Players – it’s abstract, 10 characters, and it’s both hilarious and heartbreaking. However, no matter how good a play is, if you haven’t got the right actors, you haven’t got a good show. Heather cast exactly the right people and we all had a delightful time bonding and enjoying Durang’s cynical satire.

(l to r) Daniel Haggard as Boo, E.C. Kelly as Father Donnally, and Erin Kate Howard as Bette.
Trio

Erin Kate Howard as Bette and Daniel Haggard as Boo.
Bed

(l to r) Maria Ryan as Emily and Jill Michael as Joanie.
Cello

Matt Jared as Matt.
Matt