Six Degrees of Separation | Degrees of Difference
The author presents a detailed summary of the Six Degrees of Separation and also comments on the differences found between the characters.
By now presumably everyone—or everyone who reads celebrity gossip columns—knows that John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation is distantly based on events that took place in 1983; a teenager, passing himself off as Sidney Poitier's son, imposed on several affluent New Yorkers, pretending to be a friend or classmate of their children, cleaned-out by a mugger and in need of temporary shelter. The success of Guare's play has turned the real con man—whose name happily escapes me—into a celebrity of sorts. A friend of mine tells me that during a recent television...
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