Six Degrees of Separation

by John Guare

Overview

Inspired by a true story, the play follows a young black con man as he insinuates himself into the lives of a wealthy New York couple.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822210344
Publisher:	Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/01/1999
Pages:	73
Product dimensions:	5.26(w) x 7.71(h) x 0.25(d)
Lexile:	NP (what's this?)

About the Author

John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation won the 1990 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, as well as the Hull Warriner Award and the Obie. The House of Blue Leaves won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play of 1971 and received four Tony awards in its revival at Lincoln Center in 1986. His screen play for Louis Malle's Atlantic City won the New York, Los Angeles, and National Film Critics Circle awards, as well as an Oscar nomination. Mr. Guare, a longtime council member of the Dramatists Guild, was elected in 1989 to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York.

Editorial Reviews

SIX DEGREES is the best American play of the past several seasons, and will do hot business wherever it goes.

Variety

Among the many remarkable aspects of Mr. Guare's writing is the seamlessness of his imagery, characters and themes, as if this play had erupted from his own imagination in one perfect piece.

NY Times

...cunningly executed, seemingly seamlessly joined, interlarded with clever one-liners, alternating comic situations with mildly disturbing ones...SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION is a play about everything, with something in it for everyone...

NY Magazine