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Betty's Summer Vacation: Outrageous Christopher Durang Comedy at the Onyx Theatre

Onyx Theatre (Las Vegas, NV)

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    Betty's Summer Vacation, by Christopher Durang, runs at the Onyx Theatre. A caustic satirical look at America's obsession with lurid crimes, celebrity trials and talk show confessionals, the play tells the story of a woman whose dream vacation is ruined by an assortment of mentally unstable roommates. The New York Times described it as ""relentlessly fierce, relentlessly funny".

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    The last date listed for Betty's Summer Vacation was Saturday May 3, 2008 / 8:00pm. (view all dates)

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    • "relentlessly fierce, relentlessly funny." --New York Times
    • "The funniest new farce in years… the play lifts off from the ground of brilliantly naturalistic comedy into the stratosphere of zany satire… by far Durang's best." --New York Post
    • "Christopher Durang has finally come of age and proves to be every bit as sharp and caustic as England's Joe Orton… It's simply his most brilliant play yet." --New York Daily News

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    <p>Onyx Theatre hosts award-winning director Rob Kastil's take on Christopher Durang. Join us for incest, dismemberment and a homicidal laugh track!

    Christopher Durang's outrageous Obie winning comedy, Betty's Summer Vacation (a jaded, satirical look at our society's obsession with lurid crimes, celebrity trials and talk show confessionals) opens at the Onyx Theatre April 18th.
     
    Spend the summer with Betty! Her dream vacation at a lovely beach house turns mordantly funny as her roommates arrive: an incessant chatterer, a pathological womanizer, the emotionally anarchic landlady, and a sweet, withdrawn young man who may or may not be a serial killer. All this plus an insane derelict with a penchant for flashing, and a relentless laugh track that won't stop chuckling whenever someone is molested, dismembered or murdered.
     
    Death, murder and mayhem… it's all here at Betty's seaside retreat!
     
    Directed by Rob Kastil
     
    Featuring
    Barbara King as Mrs. Siezmagraff
    Stacia Zinkevich as Betty
    Penni Mendez as Trudy
    Drew Yonemori as Buck
    Mario Mendez as Keith
    Steve McMillan as Mr. Vanislaw
    Dean Bengert, Cindy Lee Stock, and Joel Wayman are The Voices   
    Group rates are available.
     
    About the Writer
    Christopher Durang (Sister Mary Ignatius, Beyond Therapy)
    Often embraced by mainstream playhouses, Durang was actually one of the country's leading alternative voices in theatre. A lifelong gay man unafraid to write about taboos, he made his reputation in absurdism and farce after graduating from Harvard and Yale. He is a multiple Obie-winning playwright and has written several screenplays. He is currently a member of the Dramatists Guild Council and a co-chair of the playwriting program at Julliard.</p>

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