Six Degrees of Separation
By John Guare
Presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Audience Guide: Parental Guidance suggested; contains profanity and adult themes.
THREE WEEKENDS: March 5 – 22
 
Location/Parking: Tri-County Performing Arts Center, 245 E. High Street, Pottstown, PA 19464. Click here for directions and parking information.

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SPECIAL EVENTS AND PACKAGES: 

SPECIAL PREVIEW PERFORMANCE, Thursday, March 5th - Reduced price tickets - $13 for students and seniors (age 65+); $15 for adults! 

TALK-BACKS WITH DIRECTOR AARON GOULD, Thursday, March 5th and 19th.. Stay after the show for a talk-back about Six Degrees of Separation with Director Aaron Gould and cast members, on-stage immediately following the performance. Complimentary with ticket purchase for that evening’s performance. 

OPENING NIGHT MANHATTAN SOCIALITE PARTY, Friday, March 6th – Wear your formal attire and receive a complimentary glass of wine to enjoy during the show! (Optional nonalcoholic beverage also provided.) 

PRE-SHOW WINE & CHEESE AT WEITZENKORN’S, Fridays, March 6th, 13th & 20th, 6:30 – 7:30 pm. Enjoy a complimentary wine and cheese reception every Friday evening from 6:30 – 7:30 pm during our production run, and get a first look at the new Spring Collection of fine apparel for men and boys. For your convenience, Weitzenkorn’s will provide complimentary delivery of your purchases to the Tri-PAC for pickup after the show. A. Weitzenkorn’s Sons, Inc., 145 E. High Street, Pottstown, PA 19464 (610.323.8810). 

DINNER AND DONATION AT POSITIVELY PASTA – Friday, March 6th & Saturday, March 7th - Enjoy a delicious dinner at Positively Pasta on Friday, March 6th or Saturday, March 7th, and Positively Pasta will donate 10% of your check to the Tri-PAC! Be sure to mention that you are going to the show that evening. Appetizers range from $4 to $9 and entrees range from $12 - $25. BYOB. Dinner is served from 5 to 9 pm; reservations recommended. Positively Pasta, 115 E. High Street, Pottstown, PA 19464 (484.945.1007). 

AFTER-SHOW WINE & CHEESE AT GALLERY ON HIGH, Sunday, March 15th. Search for your own special “Kandinsky” right across the street at Gallery on High, immediately after the performance. View the current exhibit by Gallery member artists as well as other fine art, handcrafted jewelry, glassware, textiles, and pottery for sale, while enjoying complimentary wine and cheese. The Gallery School of Pottstown, 254 E. High Street, Pottstown, PA 19464 (610.326.2506). 

CUTILLO'S DINNER-THEATER PACKAGES – All performance dates. Enjoy a fixed price 3-course dinner-theater package before or after the show, to compliment your night on the town. Just $49 for adults and $25 for children 12 and under, and includes your choice of 10 entrees AND your ticket to the show! You can purchase your dinner-theater package by contacting the Tri-PAC Box Office at beth@villageproductions.org or 610.323.6884, or by stopping by Cutillo's. On-line purchasing coming soon! Please reserve ahead of time.

About Six Degrees of Separation

Inspired by a true story, Six Degrees of Separation centers on a young man, Paul, who charms his way into the lives of a wealthy New York couple, claiming he knows their son at college, that he is the son of actor Sidney Poitier, and that he has just been mugged. Captivated by Paul’s intelligence and fascinating conversation, the couple invited him to stay overnight. But in the morning, the picture begins to change. A witty play with dark undertones, Six Degrees of Separation touches on the falsities of the New York elite, racial tensions, homophobia, homelessness, obsession with status, and relationships between parents and children. In a climactic moment of reflection, Ouisa delivers the play’s famous monologue that contemplates how people are so closely related in a world where everyone is linked by “six degrees of separation”. The play received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and the Tony Award for Best Play.

“…. Cunningly executed, seemingly seamlessly joined, interlarded with clever one-liners, alternating comic situations with mildly disturbing ones . . . Six Degrees of Separation is a play about everything, with something in it for everyone . . . “  - New York Magazine.

“Mr. Guare . . . captures New York as Tom Wolfe did in 'Bonfire of the Vanities' . . .  and he transports the audience beyond the dailiness of journalistic storytelling to the magical reaches of the imagination. . . . 90 nonstop minutes of cyclonic action, ranging from knockabout farce to hallucinatory dreams.” – Frank Rich,

Tickets: Advanced tickets encouraged or buy at the door. Special discounted rates for groups of 10 or more. REDUCED prices for Special Preview and Thursday night performances!

Aaron Gould, Director, has worked on over 150 productions in over 20 different theaters, in nearly every capacity from director, to set design and construction, lighting and sound design and technician, stage manager, dramaturg, producer, orchestra, and actor.  Aaron began his directing career in 1996 as assistant director of THE SHADOW BOX at Forge Theatre in Phoenixville.  Since then he has directed at Forge Theatre and at Dramateurs in Jeffersonville productions of PROOF by David Auburn, DINNER WITH FRIENDS by Donald Margulies, HOT L BALTIMORE and TALLEY’S FOLLY by Lanford Wilson, THE REAL THING by Tom Stoppard, ALL IN THE TIMING by David Ives, and BEYOND THERAPY by Christopher Durang. In 2007, he directed Jason Robert Brown’s THE LAST FIVE YEARS and in 2008 directed ASSASSINS by Stephen Sondheim. In 2006, he directed Village Productions’ script-in-hand production of Neil Simon’s JAKE’S WOMEN. In between theater productions, he squeezes in a little non-theater related music, mostly as principle trombone in the Immaculata Symphony.