Background
Guare, John was born on February 5, 1938 in New York City. Son of John Edward and Helen Clare (Grady) Guare.
( One of John Guare’s classic plays, Landscape of the Bod...)
One of John Guare’s classic plays, Landscape of the Body tells the story of a woman’s unfulfilled life and premature death and her reflections from the grave. Betty travels to New York to convince her sister Rosalie to leave her gritty New York City life and come home to bucolic Maine. After dying in a freak bicycle accident, Rosalie revisits the world she left behind. From the beyond Rosalie witnesses Betty effortlessly easing into her previous persona moving into her apartment, taking over her job, but then Betty abruptly loses her teenage son to a gruesome murder. In a sardonic turn of events, Betty finds herself the primary suspect in her son’s death. Guare brilliantly moves back and forth in time and space to create and affecting study of the American dream gone awry.
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(On the day the Pope is expected to visit, hearts are palp...)
On the day the Pope is expected to visit, hearts are palpitating in the sleepy borough of Queens, but not entirely on account of His Holiness. Bunny Flingus, a femme-fatale from Flushing (or thereabouts) is stirring things up in the quiet, unfulfilled life of aspiring songwriter Artie Shaughnessy. Artie longs to leave his unhappy marriage, elope with Bunny, and write a hit song that will top the charts. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Mary Teresa Fortuna, Sharon Gless, Deb Gottesman, Christopher Lane, Ron Leibman, Cam Magee, Jennifer Mendenhall, Jessica Walter, Michael Willis
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(In the stunningly inventive new play by the author of Six...)
In the stunningly inventive new play by the author of Six Degrees of Separation, the island of Sicily becomes the setting for a drama enacting passions as ancient as a buried civilization and as catastrophic as an earthquake. This volume also contains seven short plays, including Muzeeka, The Talking Dog, and New York Actor.
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(John Guare is one of America's darkest post-war playwrigh...)
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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(The April 1991 Playbill (Vol. 91 No.4) for the Vivian Bea...)
The April 1991 Playbill (Vol. 91 No.4) for the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center documents the original Broadway production of the Pulitzer/Tony nominated play Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare, directed by Jerry Zaks, and starring Stockard Channing, Courtney B. Vance and John Cunningham. Program contents: title page (with credits), headshots of the actors, cast, Who's Who (including young Anthony Rapp in a supporting role), full staff, and complete credits. Articles: features on the Broadway musical The Secret Garden; Jonathan Pryce starring in Miss Saigon, and the N.Y. City Ballet production of The Sleeping Beauty. Popular monthly columns complete this sixty-six page issue.
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( In John Guare's classic play The House of Blue Leaves (...)
In John Guare's classic play The House of Blue Leaves (winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play), the Pope is visiting New York, and eighteen-year-old Ronnie goes AWOL from the army to come home to New York and blow up the Pope as h In his new play, Chaucer in Rome, it is the year 2000, and Ron and his wife come to Rome to search for their son. And with his inimitable wit and understanding, Guare has written a scathingly funny satire on the warping hunger for fame, and the betrayal involved in creating art.
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(InJohn Guare's classic play The House of Blue Leaves (win...)
InJohn Guare's classic play The House of Blue Leaves (winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play), the Pope is visiting New York, and eighteen-year-old Ronnie goes AWOL from the army to come home to New York and blow up the Pope as he passes his house. In his new play, Chaucer in Rome, it is the year 2000, and Ron and his wife come to Rome to search for their son. And with his...
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( Farce Characters: 4 male, 6 female Interior Set Arti...)
Farce Characters: 4 male, 6 female Interior Set Artie Shaugnessy is a songwriter with visions of glory. Toiling by day as a zoo-keeper, he suffers in seedy lounges by night, plying his wares at piano bars in Queens, New York where he lives with his wife, Bananas. Who is. Much to the chagrin of Artie's downstairs mistress, Bunny Flingus who'll sleep with him anytime but refuses to cook until they are married. On the day the Pope is making his first visit to the city, Artie's son Ronny goes AWOL from Fort Dix stowing a home made-bomb intended to blow up the Pope in Yankee Stadium. Also arriving are Artie's old school chum, now a successful Hollywood producer, Billy Einhorn with starlet girlfriend in tow, who holds the key to Artie's dreams of getting out of Queens and away from the life he so despises. But like many dreams, this promise of glory evaporates amid the chaos of ordinary lives. Winner of the 1971 Critics Award and the Obie Award as Best American Play. "A brilliant play...beautifully fashioned...Wacky and sometimes sad with... combined hilarity, poignancy, outrageous stage aside and tragedy." -The New York Daily News "Enchantingly zany and original farce." -The New York Times
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Book annotation not available for this title. Title: Bosoms and Neglect Author: Guare, John Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service Publication Date: 1999/06/01 Number of Pages: Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress: 00502416
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(Dramatists Play Service. Includes Property list and music...)
Dramatists Play Service. Includes Property list and music. From Wikipedia: "John Guare (pronounced gwâr; born February 5, 1938) is an American playwright. He is best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, and Landscape of the Body. His style, which mixes comic invention with an acute sense of the failure of human relations and aspirations, is at once cruel and deeply compassionate. In the foreword to a collection of Guare's plays, film director Louis Malle writes: Guare practices a humor that is synonymous with lucidity, exploding genre and clichés, taking us to the core of human suffering: the awareness of corruption in our own bodies, death circling in. We try to fight it all by creating various mythologies, and it is Guare's peculiar aptitude for exposing these grandiose lies of ours that makes his work so magical" Character casting: 5 women, 6 men
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(Theatre program. Cast includes Danny Aiello, Christine Ba...)
Theatre program. Cast includes Danny Aiello, Christine Baranski, Patricia Clarkson, Swoosie Kurtz. Vol. 86, No. 9.
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Guare, John was born on February 5, 1938 in New York City. Son of John Edward and Helen Clare (Grady) Guare.
AB, Georgetown University, 1961; Master of Fine Arts, Yale University, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy (Honorary), Georgetown University, 1991.
Seminar in writing fellow Saybrook College, Yale University, New Haven, 1977—1978. Adjunct professor, 1978—1981. Fellow Juilliard School, 1993—1994.
Lecturer New York University, City College of New York. Visiting artist Harvard University, 1990—1991.
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(Two Gentlemen of Verona by Guare, John and Mel Shapiro)
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Member of American Academy Arts and Letters, Dramatist Guild Council.
Married Adele Chatfield-Taylor, 1981.