Six Degrees of Separation
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jul 14, 2010
Closed Jul 25, 2010
Opened Jul 14, 2010
Closed Jul 25, 2010
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One evening can change the course of many lives. Into a Manhattan couple's nightly discussions of art deals and dinner reservations, a charismatic stranger arrives with stories of a famous father and promises of walk on roles in Cats: The Movie. Could he possibly be for real? This Olivier Award winner and Pulitzer finalist stirs the pot of privilege with often hilarious and ultimately heart-breaking results.
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In this day of Google and IMDB, the scam perpetrated by "Paul Poitier" in John Guare's 1990 play
Six Degrees of Separation, now getting a near-perfect revival under Anne Kauffman's direction at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, would be over before it began. But even if the play is a work very much of its time, it remains timeless in its frank look at the desperate measures some of us are willing to employ to achieve a sense of belonging.
Guare derived his plot from a real-life incident, in which con artist David Hampton successfully infiltrated Manhattan's haute monde by posing as the son of actor Sidney Poitier. The real Hampton was, by all accounts, a career criminal with a sociopath[...]