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    Six Degrees of Separation
    Six Degrees of Separation
    Six Degrees of Separation
    Audiobook1 hour

    Six Degrees of Separation

    Written by John Guare

    Narrated by Alan Alda and Full Cast

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In a Fifth Avenue apartment high above Central Park, art dealer Flanders Kittredge and his wife Ouisa are trying to interest a moneyed friend in a $2 million investment. When an unexpected young guest arrives, claiming to be the son of Sidney Poitier, the plot takes some wonderfully unexpected turns. Veering effortlessly from hilarity to pathos, this dazzling play was lauded by The New York Times as “transcendent, magical and a masterwork.”

    An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Alan Alda, Pam Blair, Gabrielle Carteris, Gabriel Dell, Alastair Duncan, Melissa Greenspan, Oded Gross, Chuma Hunter-Gault, Swoosie Kurtz, Charles Levin, Daniel Passer and Danny Strauss.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherL.A. Theatre Works
    Release dateDec 6, 2000
    ISBN9781580815154
    Six Degrees of Separation

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    • 5/5
      Fabulous. Great performances from everyone. This play has really stood the test of time. As entertaining as the day it was first performed.
    • 5/5
      I'm not a director, but if I were, this is the one play I would love to stage. "Six Degrees of Separation" is a meditation on trust and friendship, as we witness a group of disconnected characters caught up in one lie that grows and grows and grows. It's a portrait of lonely people, at heart, and asks where the line is drawn between true experience, and the coldness of living only for anecdotes. The dialogue is crisp and alternates between hilarity and tears. The film - with Will Smith and Stockard Channing - is greatly enjoyable, but I'd love to see it performed on stage with actors of the same calibre.
    • 5/5
      The experience of reading this play for the first time, not knowing what would happen, was amazing. The movie version doesn't even come close to doing it justice.
    • 3/5
      An uptown New York couple take in a young black man for the night when he's mugged as he tells them that he is both a friend of their children and the son of Sydney Poitier.Not sure I got everything going on in this play but it was entertaining listening.
    • 5/5
      This is a powerful play, and so interestingly put together that you won't be able to stop reading once you start. The characters are strangely realistic, and the writing beautiful. This is worth reading or staging.
    • 3/5
      I play that I read when I was 16. I liked it then. but mind you, my life was quite different. about an art dealer in Chi and a man who convinces them to buy. very much a play.
    • 4/5
      Sometimes once a play gets made into a movie, it's easy for the play to get lost. This play stands well on its own, and doesn't need all the props of a movie to carry it. The set is actually very simple (and surreal in many places). The premise isn't unique - a con man manages to get a bunch of self-important people to take him seriously - but the execution is original. The writing catches the cynical cleverness of the not-quite rich but highly educated, and yet it isn't just another swipe at pretentiousness. Guare takes his characters seriously, and appears to like at least some of them. He strips away the false pretensions and allows us to see the people underneath, without sneering at either the haves or the have nots. Worth reading over again for the subtle plot points you missed the first time.
    • 4/5
      Sometimes once a play gets made into a movie, it's easy for the play to get lost. This play stands well on its own, and doesn't need all the props of a movie to carry it. The set is actually very simple (and surreal in many places). The premise isn't unique - a con man manages to get a bunch of self-important people to take him seriously - but the execution is original. The writing catches the cynical cleverness of the not-quite rich but highly educated, and yet it isn't just another swipe at pretentiousness. Guare takes his characters seriously, and appears to like at least some of them. He strips away the false pretensions and allows us to see the people underneath, without sneering at either the haves or the have nots. Worth reading over again for the subtle plot points you missed the first time.