Guare, John (Vol. 8) - Guare, John 1938–
Guare, John 1938–
American playwright and recipient of several distinguished awards, including the New York Drama Critics Award for the Best New Play of the Year, Guare is generally thought to be the most promising playwright to appear in America since Edward Albee. He excels at writing Strindbergian domestic dramas and savage farces.
"Rich and Famous" … is a vengeful attack on commercial show biz, Absurdist in tone, masquerading as a commercial comedy about eccentric theatre people. A young playwright named Bing Ringling (Guare's taste in character names tends to be garish) has his deeply personal poetic drama about the first Emperor of China gutted and jazzed up, overpraised and bad-mouthed, followed up by talent-hunters and put down gently by failure-freaks, until the climactic rug is pulled out from under him (the production never opens), and he goes off somewhere to "try and be a writer".
Shaky as this is at the core—because Guare...
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