The Oxford Companion to American Literature | Guare, John
Guare, John( 1938–, playwright.) A graduate of the Yale Drama School, Guare has written two plays that gained him national recognition, both produced in Off-Broadway theaters. These are The House of Blue Leaves, about a piano player who longs for the return to sanity of his wife “Bananas” (best play 1971, New York Drama Critics Circle), and Six Degrees of Separation (1990), about a young black man who cons his way into a wealthy white couple's graces by claiming to be the son of the film actor Sidney Poitier. Both plays are set in Guare's native New York City, as are several other of his works. In recent plays—Lydie Breeze (2001) and A Few Stout Individuals (2002)—Guare has set the drama in the nineteenth century (in Nantucket and New York City, respectively).
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