Guare Plays: v.1: 'House of Blue Leaves'; 'Landscape of the Body'; 'Bosoms and Neglect'; 'Six Degrees of Separation'

Guare Plays: v.1: 'House of Blue Leaves'; 'Landscape of the Body'; 'Bosoms and Neglect'; 'Six Degrees of Separation'

Guare Plays: v.1: 'House of Blue Leaves'; 'Landscape of the Body'; 'Bosoms and Neglect'; 'Six Degrees of Separation'

Guare Plays: v.1: 'House of Blue Leaves'; 'Landscape of the Body'; 'Bosoms and Neglect'; 'Six Degrees of Separation'

Guare Plays: v.1: 'House of Blue Leaves'; 'Landscape of the Body'; 'Bosoms and Neglect'; 'Six Degrees of Separation'

Overview

John Guare is one of America's darkest post-war playwrights The House of Blue Leaves is about "the clash between American dreams and the American way of death" (Village Voice); The Landscape of the Body moves between a ferry to Nantucket and Greenwich village and is a "darkly lyric comedy about spiritual void and urban overkill" (New York Times); Bosoms and Neglect is a "terrific American mother-son play" (New York Post) and Six Degrees of Separation is an explosive comedy that exposes white middle-class hypocrisy and prejudice, it is "transcendent, magical, a masterwork that captures New York as Tom Wolfe did in Bonfire of the Vanities."

Authors

John Guare

John Guare's plays include Lydie Breeze; Bosoms and Neglect; The House of Blue Leaves, which won an Obie and NY Drama Critics Circle Award for the Best American Play of 1970-71 and four Tonys in its 1986 Lincoln Center revival; and Six Degrees of Separation, which received th ...
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