Six Degrees of Separation
Six Degrees of Separation is a 1990 play written by John Guare. The play explores the existential premise that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else in the world by a chain of no more than six acquaintances, thus, "six degrees of separation". The plot of the play was inspired by the real-life story of David Hampton, a con man who managed to convince a number of people in the 1980s that he was the son of actor Sidney Poitier. After the play became a dramatic and financial success, Hampton was tried and acquitted for harassment of Guare; he felt he was due a share of the profits that he ultimately never received.
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The original text
Premiered at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center, on May 16, 1990, directed by Jerry Zaks and starring Stockard Channing.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Presented by Pieter Toerien Productions at the Alhambra Theatre in October 1992 directed by Robert Whitehead with a cast of 17 headed by Fiona Ramsay and Graham Hopkins including Pat Pillai.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Separation_(play)
Birds of Paradise theatre programme, announcement of forthcoming attractions.
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