Six Degrees of Separation

In this soaring and deeply provocative tragicomedy of race, class, and manners, John Guare has created the most important American play in years. 'Six Degrees of Separation' is one of those rare works that capture both the supercharged pulse of our present era and the deepest and most mysterious movements of the human heart.

John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation won the 1990 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, as well as the Hull Warriner Award and the Obie. The House of Blue Leaves won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play of 1971 and received four Tony awards in its revival at Lincoln Center in 1986. His screen play for Louis Malle's Atlantic City won the New York, Los Angeles, and National Film Critics Circle awards, as well as an Oscar nomination. Mr. Guare, a longtime council member of the Dramatists Guild, was elected in 1989 to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York.

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"I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation... It's a profound thought... How every person is a new door, opening up into other worlds."


Six Degrees of Separation is a modern American classic play: an explosive comedy that exposes white middle-class hypocrisy and prejudice.  

The play is a sharp, witty but serious exploration of the individual in society and the values or beliefs which motivate them.  A young African-American man gains access to the homes of upper-class New Yorkers by pretending to be the son of actor Sidney Poitier.  Treated with suspicion and then affection, he soon wreaks havoc in their comfortable lives.

The play first opened off-Broadway in 1990 and, after playing to sold-out houses and ovating audiences, it was produced internationally and made into a blockbuster film starring Donald Sutherland, Stockard Channing and Will Smith in 1994.  It won numerous awards, including an Olivier and New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.