Division Street

Betty

Produced by Minnesota Repertory Theatre

Written by Steven Tesich

Chris, a burnt out sixties radical, has settled in Chicago seeking obscurity as an insurance underwriter. He wants to forget his activist past, but is besieged by old cronies and unwanted new ones: a former Black militant, now a transexual city cop; his loopy ex-wife wife who speaks only the words of rock song cliches; a bomb wielding Serbian restaurateur; a former partner in radicalism who now rails against the "women's movement"; a prostitute who espouses the virtues of promiscuity, and his African American-Polish landlady.