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Christopher Durang's The Marriage of Bette and Boo follows in the great American dramatic tradition of the family tragedy. This work, like O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, is a disturbing, insightful and fascinating family portrait. The script highlights the issues of dreams unattained and reality denied as it tells the story of Bette and Boo Hudlocke, June and Ward Cleaver gone terribly wrong. The young lovers marry after knowing each other only two months, and by their honeymoon the traces of their later neuroses are already apparent...
...Marriage of Bette and Boo...
...dreams turn nightmarish as she has stillborn child after stillborn child. With the loss of each, Bette (Maile Meloy) retreats further into a fantasy world populated by the characters of Pooh's Corner. As she becomes more and more infantile in her blind desire to have children, Boo (Woody Hill) becomes increasingly estranged from her. He eventually finds solace in drink, and Bette comes to blame her unhappiness on his excesses rather than hers...
...take solace in two things. One is that I had a good time at the game. The other is that, in the middle of the game, when Derek Bok smugly walked down the sidelines in front of the Harvard fans and was roundly cheered, I remembered myself enough to boo and give him the finger...
Leverett House Master John E. Dowling '57 said that he did not know about the heating system shutdown. "No one said boo to me today," he said. "As far as I know there hasn't been a problem...