Six degrees of separation play review
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JJ Abrams plays a very whiny college kid. Six Degrees of Separation is one of those rare works that capture both the supercharged pulse of our present era and the deepest and most mysterious movements of the human heart. An odd duck for sure, but I enjoyed how it all sounded like it was a play.
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"In this soaring and deeply provacative tragicomedy of race, class, and manners, John Guare has created the msot important American play in years. David Hampton, the ersatz son of Sidney Poitier whose pursuit of the glamorous life inspired the award-winning play 'Six Degrees of Separation,' died last month in a decidedly desolate fashion: alone in a Manhattan hospital bed, friends confirmed Saturday. Guare uses the props of the late twentieth century, such as social issues and art, to create a comprehensive picture of a fragmented society, one in which those simple six degrees that bind people together are overlooked, blatantly ignored, and, very occasionally, celebrated
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Guare based the premise of his play on an actual incident-a young African-American man gained access to the homes of upper-class New Yorkers by pretending to be the son of actor Sidney Poitier-but the creation of the play is an imaginative tour de force. Xiii, 120 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : 21 cmĬalled a tragicomedy by some critics, Six Degrees of Separation is a witty, biting, yet ultimately sincere commentary on what drives people: the desire for money, fame, social standing, comfort, and, for the lucky, a desire for meaningful human connection.