Betty's Summer Vacation
Fri, Jul 18
|Kalamazoo
An outrageous play and a dark spoof commenting on the media's obsession with sensationalizing events and its ability to cater to our fascination with notorious behavior.


Time & Location
Jul 18, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Kalamazoo, 1030 Portage Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49001, USA
About The Event
Synopsis:
“Betty’s Summer Vacation” is an outrageous play and a dark spoof commenting on the media’s obsession with sensationalizing events and its ability to cater to our fascination with notorious behavior. The play explores how people respond to horrific acts — sexual abuse, rape, incest, castration and dismemberment — in disturbingly funny, astonishing and unabashedly truthful ways.
Written by Christopher Durang, the Obie Award-winning play opens when Betty and her friend Trudy rent a seaside cottage that they have to share with a group of unsavory characters.
The cast includes Keith, a strange introvert who carries around a shovel and hatbox; Buck, a sex-crazed hunk; Mr. Vanislaw, a degenerate flasher who gets his thrills from hiding in women’s dressing rooms and exposing himself; and Mrs. Siezmagraff, a raging drunk and widow desperate for male affection who is also trying to forget her ex-husband’s abuse of their daughter, Trudy.
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