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Six Degrees of Separation
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 15, 2009
Closed Feb 15, 2009

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

This Pulitzer Prize finalist and Olivier Award-winning play is a fascinating and compassionate commentary on what drives people: the desire for money, fame, social standing, comfort, and a desire for meaningful human connection. Based on an actual incident when a man gained access to the homes of upper-class New Yorkers by pretending to be the son of actor Sidney Poitier, Six Degrees of Separation centers on art dealers Ouisa and Flan Kittredge and the young man who disrupts, and possibly enriches, their privileged, Upper East Side lives.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Old Globe Theatre
1549 El Prado
San Diego, CA 92101


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

The world has changed tremendously in the nearly two decades since John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation, now being its given San Diego premiere at the Old Globe Theatre, first touched on the idea of how everyone on the planet -- and not just Kevin Bacon -- is connected to someone else by the thinnest of threads. But time hasn't blunted the topicality of Guare's literate play or its fascination with the duality of personality and character, all of which is in evidence in Trip Cullman's sterling production, acted with panache by a very talented cast led by Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba.

Guare based his play on a real occurrence that took place among wealthy Manhattanites in the early 1980[...]


Reviewed by Rob Stevens on Jan 17, 2009

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