The document summarizes a play called "Betty's Summer Vacation" by Christopher Durang. It describes the synopsis as involving Betty and Trudy spending time in a summer house with three others who are all described as "nutjobs". The play contains dark comedy elements where characters are raped, beheaded, and sterilized. It notes the play has an unexpected twist ending involving gratuitous explosions not hinted at previously. The summary praises the play for being very economical, with constant forward movement and no breaks detracting from the story.

1. “Betty’s Summer
Vacation”
By Christopher Durang

2. Synopsis
Betty and Trudy in a summer house with
three others
Everybody but Betty a nutjob
Dark comedy, people being raped, beheaded,
and “sterilized.”

3. passover question
How is this night different than the rest?
Not every day someone is raped, beheaded or
“sterilized.”
Also not likely to have such a group of
nutjobs in one house.

4. Twist Ending
Nobody expects the play to end the way it
does.
Not going to blatantly give away the ending,
but:
It involves gratuitous explosions, not even
hinted to in the play.

5. Economy
This play is very economical:
The play is always moving forward;
No breaks are taken that detracts from the
story whatsoever.