Six Degrees of Separation
Six Degrees of Separation Author: John Guare
First Performance: 1990, New York
Published: 1990
Genre: Drama in 1 act
Setting: East Side, New York, c.1990
Cast: 14m, 4f
John Flanders (‘Flan’) Kittredge (44), an attractive New York art dealer, and his wife Louisa (‘Ouisa’), about to go to dinner with a South African friend, are surprised by the arrival of Paul, a young black, who has just been mugged in Central Park. Paul claims to be a fellow student of their children at Harvard and to be the son of Sidney Poitier. The Kittredges awake to find that Paul has brought a hustler into their apartment; they are disgusted, and throw Paul and the hustler out. They meet friends who have had exactly the same experience. All efforts to contact Sidney Poitier fail, and, since nothing was stolen, the police...
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