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.

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,

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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.