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John Guare: Plays (Loa #392)

John Guare: Plays (Loa #392)

Guare, John
Kushner, Tony
Cattaneo, Anne

Hardcover

Plays

Publisher Price: $45.00

ISBN10: 1598538160
ISBN13: 9781598538168
Publisher: Library of America
Published: Oct 14 2025
Pages: 832
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Tony Kushner presents a career-spanning collection of 14 masterworks by the Tony Award-winning author of Six Degrees of Separation

The very best plays by one of the foremost American playwrights of his generation

More than any other American playwright, John Guare's work feels uncannily prophetic, observes Tony Kushner. His plays, with an original combination of realism, dream state, psychopathology, vision, delusion, humor, compassion, grief, and terror, map out the landscape of what life feels like in the here and now.

Here is an indispensable one-volume retrospective of an essential American playwright. It includes:

  • A selection of one-act plays from the 1960s that show Guare exploring, on a small scale, the subjects that would continue to preoccupy him
  • Guare's breakout Off-Broadway hit, The House of Blue Leaves, a daring, darkly hilarious comedy that presciently takes aim at the excesses of celebrity worship in America.
  • Carefully plotted to yield unexpected surprises, plays such as Rich and Famous and Landscape of the Body that delve into the nature of envy and longing amid an ostentatiously affluent society
  • Dramas set in the past, such as the Lydie Breeze trilogy and the later A Free Man of Color, take a broader historical view of America's utopian longings and racial hypocrisies.
  • His best-known work, Six Degrees of Separation, which shows itself to be an enduring landmark of the American stage, a stunning fusion of comic and tragic elements and a subtle, emotionally powerful investigation into the depths of deception and authenticity.
  • For the first time, Guare's short play Woman at a Threshold, Beckoning as well as his acclaimed screenplay for Louis Malle's film Atlantic City.

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