Critic Robert Brustein described The Marriage of Bette and Boo as an "achingly funny assault on the vanities, inanities and insanities of family life." By the author of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, its daring comedy inspires the same kind of nervous laughter. Particularly when this play includes the satirical anarchy of a catastrophic Thanksgiving and an apocalyptic Christmas. As a dark comedy about an extreme yet all-too-familiar family, it may be an early December antidote to sentimental holiday overkill.