Guare Plays:1: The House of Blue Leaves; Landscape of the Body; Bosoms and Neglect; Six Degrees of Separation
By (Author) John Guare
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Methuen Drama
1st August 2006
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
812.54
Paperback
320
Width 111mm, Height 178mm, Spine 19mm
368g
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."
John Guare is a leading American playwright, whose best known works include House of Blue Leaves, which won both an Obie and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the Best American Play of 1970-71 and received four Tony Awards during its 1986 revival, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun which was produced at the Lincoln Center Theater in 1992 and was nominated for four Tony Awards, and Six Degrees of Separation which received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1990 and the Laurence Olivier Best Play Award in 1993.