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PLAYS: 1 - THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES; LANDSCAPE OF THE BODY; BOSOMS AND NEGLECT; SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION

by J. Guare

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'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.'''… (more)
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'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.'''

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Contains: The house of blue leaves - Landscape of the body - Bosoms and neglect - Six degrees of separation
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