Four Baboons Adoring the Sun (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Guare
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Drama
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Mythology or myths, Italy or Italians
The questioning of the rewards of success in the lives of Ouisa and Flan Kittredge in Six Degrees of Separation are again enacted in Four Baboons Adoring the Sun. Here, however, the couple—Penny and Philip McKenzie—and their children (ranging in age from thirteen to seven) are younger. Philip has left his successful “empire” as an archaeology professor at a California university, and Penny has severed her typical suburban existence “off Exit 4 of the Connecticut Turnpike” as wife of a congressman. Having realized the rewards of the American Dream, both need,...
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