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John Guare

John Guare
Guare at the 2009 premiere of PoliWood
Personal information
Birth dateFebruary 5, 1938(age 73)
Place of birthNew York City, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
OccupationPlaywright
Period1964 � present
Notable worksThe House of Blue Leaves; Six Degrees of Separation

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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.

John Guare Video

House of Blue Leaves April 8 - May 4, 2008 In our Black Box Theater Written by John Guare Directed by Billie McBride A bizarre comedy that leaves you gasping... It is 1965: the Pope is coming to New York City and comical chaos is about to reign. House of Blue Leaves, winner of four Tony Awards® is a dark comedy with neurotic characters. This social commentary of the '60s follows Artie Shaughnessy, a zookeeper by day and a hope-to-be songwriter by night. He fears that he is "too old to be a young talent." Artie's creative space is interrupted by a cast of crazy characters - nuns on the roof, his loony wife Bananas, his manic mistress Bunny, and his psychotic son Ronnie, who is preparing to assassinate the Pope. This absurd comedy brings to light the lengths people will go to for their 15 minutes of fame.
3.75 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Film: Atlantic City. Starring: Burt Lancaster as Lou Pascal, Susan Sarandon as Sally Matthews and Michel Piccoli as Joseph. Directed by: Louis Malle. Story & Screenplay written by: John Guare. Distributed by: © Paramount Pictures. Theatrical Release Date: 2 September 1980 "Italy" (premiere at 'Venice Film Festival') 3 April 1981 (USA) Niceties by: www.youtube.com Synopsis! "Atlantic City" is a film directed by Louis Malle. Filmed in late 1979, it was released in France and Germany in 1980 and in the United States in 1981. The script was written by John Guare. It stars Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Robert Joy, Hollis McLaren, Michel Piccoli, and Al Waxman. Plot! The film tells the story of a young Canadian woman (Susan Sarandon) whose dream for a better life in the gambling business is interrupted by the return of the drug-dealing husband she had left behind, and an older man (Burt Lancaster) long a resident of Atlantic City, and how their lives interact and change both for the better.
2.00 min. | 5.0 user rating		 I recently wrote this song adapting the lyrics from Albert Camus, John Guare, Reverend William Jay, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Abraham Lincoln and Jackie Gleason. How sweet it is! Leah Zager sings, Dennis Hamm piano, Ravi Knypstra bass, Bruce Becker drums, Michael Woodrum engineer. We recorded this on Tuesday May 18, 2010.
5.80 min. | 5.0 user rating		 This is a shorter, edited version of Ronnie's monologue from the play The House of Blue Leaves by John Guare. Simply put, this is my take on the popular monologue. Ronnie is an 18 year old struggling for attention. He's a little unkempt and depressed.
6.12 min. | 3.66 user rating		 on making the movie "Taking Off"
1.72 min. | 5.0 user rating
this is a favorite monologue of mine from Landscape of the Body by John Guare
2.90 min. | 0 user rating		 Oops, old video I forgot to post. I played Bananas this past Spring in my university's production of "The House of Blue Leaves" by John Guare. It's a wonderful, wacky, dark comedy set in Queens the day the pope comes to New York in the 1960s. My character, Bananas, is literally "bananas". :P This monologue is often found in collections, so you may have come across it. The whole show is weird, funny, pitiful--unforgettable, really. If you ever have the opportunity to see it and/or audition for it, give it a shot! :) There are a few photos from the play at the end too. Enjoy! Oh, and no Copyright Infringement intended with the song at the end. Just thought it was a fun fit for the photos! :)
7.58 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Interview with Six Degrees of Separation Playwright, John Guare
4.05 min. | 0 user rating		 Landscape of the body a monologue by John Guare.... be on the look out for the finished work
3.17 min. | 1.0 user rating		 Join us for the first play of the 2010-2011 school year! John Guare's "Six Degrees of Separation" is inspired by a real-life con artist who shows up on the doorstep of a wealthy socialite couple in New York City after he has been the victim of an attack on the streets of the city. The young man claims to be Sidney Poitier's son and says he is a friend to the couple's son. The couple takes him in and allows him to stay even after they know who he is. Show times: Friday 10/1 and 10/8: 8pm Saturday 10/2 and 10/9: 2pm and 8pm Sunday 10/3 and 10/10: 2pm Tickets: $20 Students,Faculty, staff, Alumni, children under 12: $15 Groups of 20+: $12 1-800-564-9539 or www.fauevents.com www.facebook.com www.fautheatre.com ******Adult content. Parental discretion advised. This production contains male frontal nudity and graphic language.
1.23 min. | 0 user rating

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HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES Opens WWC? 2011 Season 1/14-31, 2011 - Broadway World Tweet this news
Broadway World--Who Wants Cake? kicks off the new year with a fresh look at -John Guare's- classic dark comedy, The House of Blue Leaves. Playing at Ferndale's Ringwald ... - Date : Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:03:13 GMT+00:00
Theatrical Stumbles of Historic Proportions - History News Network Tweet this news
History News Network--And the new -John Guare- play about the Louisiana Purchase, “A Free Man of Color,” looks likely to eke out its limited run playing to strictly limited houses ... - Date : Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:51:19 GMT+00:00
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HipHopDX--The play, written by -John Guare-, is being directed by George C. Wolf, according to bvnewswire.com. The story takes place in 1801 New Orleans, ... - Date : Wed, 18 Aug 2010 05:55:21 GMT+00:00
Tony Randall Theatrical Fund Grants Announced; John Guare's Free Man of Color ... - TheaterMania.com Tweet this news
TheaterMania.com---...- the National Actors Theatre Foundation, also administered by Mrs. Randall, to Lincoln Center Theater's production of -John Guare's- A Free Man of Color. ... - Date : Mon, 24 May 2010 19:22:52 GMT+00:00



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