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Six Degrees of Separation

John Guare

The extraordinary tragicomedy of race, class and manners.

From the Trade Paperback edition.
Landscape of the Body: A Play

John Guare

One of John Guare’s classic plays, Landscape of the Body tells the story of a woman’s unfulfilled life and premature death — and her reflections from the grave. Betty travels to New York to convince her sister Rosalie to leave her gritty New York City life and come home to bucolic Maine. After dying in a freak bicycle accident, Rosalie revisits the world she left behind. From the beyond Rosalie witnesses Betty effortlessly easing into her previous persona — moving into her apartment, taking over her job, but then Betty abruptly loses her teenage son to a gruesome murder. In a sardonic turn of events, Betty finds herself the primary suspect in her son’s death. Guare brilliantly moves back and forth in time and space to create and affecting study of the American dream gone awry.
The House Of Blue Leaves

John Guare
The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome

John Guare

In John Guare's classic play The House of Blue Leaves (winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play), the Pope is visiting New York, and eighteen-year-old Ronnie goes AWOL from the army to come home to New York and blow up the Pope as he passes his house. In his new play, Chaucer in Rome, it is the year 2000, and Ron and his wife come to Rome to search for their son. And with his inimitable wit and understanding, Guare has written a scathingly funny satire on the warping hunger for fame, and the betrayal involved in creating art.
Marco Polo Sings a Solo

John Guare
Plays

John Guare
A Few Stout Individuals: A Play in Two Acts

John Guare

This latest work from award-winning playwright John Guare, author of House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation, addresses ideas of history and memory, fame and ignominy, reason and insanity with his trademark Guare imagination. In a Fifth Avenue brownstone in 1880s New York, Ulysses S. Grant is penniless, dying of throat cancer, and attempting to finish his memoirs while he's cajoled and pestered by everyone from his wife and children to his publisher Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) and, via his drugged hallucinations, the emperor of Japan. Although the memoirs are eventually completed, the audience is left questioning their accuracy and, ultimately, the authenticity of history itself.
Conjunctions: 25, The New American Theater

Edited by John Guare.
Bosoms & Neglect

John Guare
Lydie Breeze

John Guare

An extensive reworking of two earlier (1981) plays by John Guare about a nineteenth-century commune in Nantucket, Lydie Breeze is a two-play, six-hour cycle about four seekers who come to the island to create a special model for a better world in the ashes of the Civil War and end up as a model for the corruption of twentieth-century idealism. The result is an almost surreal saga of American life, with allegorical meditations on the contradictions and interconnectedness of all things and the chaotic nature of the universe.
The Theater Posters of James Mcmullan

James McMullan
Three Exposures

John Guare
Chaucer in Rome

John Guare
Rich and Famous

John Guare
Bosoms and Neglect.

John Guare
Four Baboons Adoring the Sun and Other Plays

John Guare

In the stunningly inventive new play by the author of Six Degrees of Separation, the island of Sicily becomes the setting for a drama enacting passions as ancient as a buried civilization and as catastrophic as an earthquake. This volume also contains seven short plays, including Muzeeka, The Talking Dog, and New York Actor.
Gardenia

John Guare
The General of Hot Desire: And Other Plays

John Guare
In Fireworks Lie Secret Codes.

John Guare
John Guare, Vol. 1: The War Against the Kitchen Sink (Contemporary American Playwrights)

John Guare

1. Cop-Out
2. Home Fires
3. Marco Polo Sings a Solo
4. Moon under Miami
5. Rich and Famous