Plays 1: The House of Blue Leaves / Landscape of the Body / Bosoms and Neglect / Six Degrees of Separation

by John Guare

John Guare is one of America's darkest post-war playwrights The House of Blue Leaves is about "the clash between American dreams and the American way of death" (Village Voice); The Landscape of the Body moves between a ferry to Nantucket and Greenwich village and is a "darkly lyric comedy about spiritual void and urban overkill" (New York Times); Bosoms and Neglect is a "terrific American mother-son play" (New York Post) and Six Degrees of Separation is an explosive comedy that exposes white middle-class hypocrisy and prejudice, it is "transcendent, magical, a masterwork that captures New York as Tom Wolfe did in Bonfire of the Vanities."

Genres: Theatre

324 pages, Paperback

First published March 4, 1999

Reviews

[Stewart · Rating 4 out of 5]

Of the four, House of Blue Leaves is the star here - perhaps Guare's best play, an hilarious oddball comedy with unforgettable characters, immortalized on video by John Mahoney, Swoozie Kurtz and Christine Baranski.

[Torchlight Under The Covers · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Six Degrees of Separation is one of the greatest plays of all time, and so severely underrated