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Six Degrees of Separation -- starring Alan Alda, Swoosie Kurtz, and Chuma Hunter (Audio Theatre Series) [AUDIOBOOK] [UNABRIDGED] (Audio Cassette)

~ (Author), Alan Alda (Reader), Swoosie Kurtz (Reader), Chuma Hunter-Gault (Reader)
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Since its inception in 1974, L.A. Theatre Works, a nonprofit radio production company, has built up a sizable catalogue of ensemble-cast productions in which major name actors (including the likes of Richard Dreyfuss, Kelsey Grammer and Jacqueline Bisset) perform classic and contemporary plays. Typical is this famous Guare work, which stars Alan Alda, Swoosie Kurtz and Chuma Hunter-Gault and is directed by Jay Sandrich. Though on tape, the production still sounds more like theater than anything else: it's all in the timing. Recorded before a live audience, in the open-miked fidelity one can sense the ambient space surrounding the actors, the charge of excitement sparking between them. The opening scene, with its New York City society dinner party, sets the overall tone of clever talkiness (here, Alda and Kurtz especially shine). When a young African-American stranger arrives at the door, claiming to be the son of actor Sidney Poitier, the plot takes some wonderfully unexpected turns. As with other L.A. Theatre Works programs, this is especially well suited for would-be actors, as the tape draws attention to the mechanics of Guare's play itselfAand to the role played by a skilled cast in animating that material. Recommended for libraries and general audiences alike. (July)
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This new effort is an excellent production of Guare's famous play. When a young man enters the Fifth Avenue home of Flanders and Ouisa Kittredge claiming to be a friend of their children and son of actor Sidney Poitier, the couple is charmed by his manners, wit, and intelligence. When the Kittredges discover that "Paul" isn't all he claims to be, they find themselves stuck between embarrassment and fascination. Alan Alda and Swoosie Kurtz portray the Kittredges convincingly, with Kurtz's performance particularly effective, as she captures Ouisa's empathy and simultaneous desire not to get too involved with an obviously disturbed person. Chuma Hunter-Gault sensitively portrays the con man who manages to change the Kittredges' lives irrevocably. A few moments in which it becomes difficult to distinguish among characters' voices are all that mar a fine production. This will be welcome to students, lovers of the theater, and even more traditional fans of audiobooks. Recommended.
-Adrienne Furness, Genesee Community Coll., Batavia, NY
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Audio Cassette
  • Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works; Unabridged edition (December 30, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1580811418
  • ISBN-13: 978-1580811415
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 5.4 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,794,776 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A disturbingly funny play that examines race and class., November 3, 2000
By Christian Engler (Woburn, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
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Based on the true story of a wealthy, well-meaning liberal couple in the upper echelons of New York society's upper crust, we have Flan or Flanders Kittredge and his wife Ouisa or Louisa; the former is a standoffish but deep down good-hearted art dealer in the private sector who has a penchant for the works of Kandinsky and Cezanne; the latter is his wife, articulate and intelligent who is in need of something of greater meaning and depth other than money, art, fancy restaurants and wealthy friends.

And so the evening commences with a friend from South Africa; they are discussing poverty, the downtrodden and the oppressed, overblown intellectual banter to elevate the ego and make the evening progress smoothly and divinely. But the night is anything but that, for it is dramatically interrupted by Paul - a young black homosexual flimflammer or Peter Funk man with a penchant for male street hustlers (only when he is happy - his words). He comes into the lives of these two unwitting victims after stabbing and passing himself off as a friend to their children who are at Harvard. And what else does her profess? You guessed it - that he is the son of you-know-who: Academy Award winner Sidney Poitier, the most eminent black actor of his generation, the hero that has been the catalyst for the lives of these socially and politically 'aware' forty-somethings.

Paul charms and bedazzles himself into the lives of those he encounters, using his wit, knowledge, ease and most importantly, his race, more specifically, Sidney Poitier's name. As the play intensifies, Paul promises the Kittredge's and future unsuspecting victims minor roles in the movie version of Cats, for which his 'father' is purportedly directing. The victims salivate over the prospect of being in a Poitier film, and they let their guards down, for their humdrum existence now has that depth and meaning that was missing at the beginning of the play; it has that structure that their kids, their careers, their money and their friends could not provide. It has a purpose. An assumed black actor's son is mugged in Central Park. And the kind Kittredges help him out. When life is not all that we want it to be, it is easy to have the wool pulled over our eyes. We believe because we want to believe. That is the meat of this play.

This play is complex because of the issues that are addressed; it is not just about race and economics, but it is about the purpose of existance in life. This work evolves and reveals so many layers, layers that are eventually reached, and thus, a truer gift of insight gained. Ironically, in the environment of the wealthy elite and the established intelligentsia, it was a sharpie who made this couple and others similar to them see the gift that life and living really is.

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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An essential bit of theater., October 7, 1999
By Marc A. Coignard (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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John Guare has created a witty, creative, funny, and tragic play with his SIX DEGREES OF SEPERATION, based upon the true story of a wealthy Manhattan couple who are fooled into allowing a con-man who claims to be a friend of their Harvard children, and the son of actor Sideny Potier into their home. Paul, the con-man in question, is a homosexual who has previously seduced a lover into telling him secrets about people in this upper-class Manahatten community. Paul even goes so far as to stabbing himself and claiming that he was mugged for his briefcase.

Mr. guare has adapted this story to the playbook with astoinding creativity and brilliance. His characters grow and learn with each passing scene. Mr. Guare is an incredible author who has built a beautiful world on the stage. I can't imagine how wonderful a sight this must be when seen live. SIX DEGREES OF SEPERATION is essential when studying or performing modern theater. Nothing this decade has stood out as much as this play.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Six Degrees is incredible!, August 3, 1997
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this is a brilliant play and the movie adaption goes by the screenplay almost word-for-word, scene-by-scene. it is about many things, primarily dealing with the nature of social role. but you'll find more than that, you'll find issues in meaning, art, color, dreams, all wrapped up into what can be seen as a social commentary.
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3.0 out of 5 stars "We're not enough to be envied"
John Guare's "Six Degrees of Separation" is about the foibles of a New York City couple named Flanders and Louisa Kittredge, who go by the nicknames Flan and Ouisa. Read more
Published on October 15, 2006 by Gregory Baird

5.0 out of 5 stars Six Degrees
I was introduced to this play about a month ago when I was cast in the role of Kitty, a friend of the Kitteredges. Read more
Published on December 6, 2001 by Lex

3.0 out of 5 stars cruel fun
Even if this play were worthless, which it is not quite, the concept that gives it its title has passed into the American lexicon, so it will long be remembered, if in name only... Read more
Published on March 1, 2001 by Orrin C. Judd

2.0 out of 5 stars "Once I was blind..."
My thanks to Mr. Guare. Had he not portrayed the rich as fatuous dupes, I might still envy them.
Published on December 11, 2000 by Bastiat

5.0 out of 5 stars Six Degrees: From paper to Production
This brilliant modern classic has drawn the affections and adoration of readers, theatre goers, and film buffs. Read more
Published on July 14, 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars This play idealises imagination.
This play idealises imagination through an exciting exploration of hard-line and confronting social issues deplored magnificently in a satired New Yorkian environment. Read more
Published on May 23, 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars I loved this play, and it reads wonderfully
This is a talkative piece, but a great one. If there is any play in recent years that can compare, I don't know of it.
Published on November 10, 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Guare's best
A wonderful play based on an actual event. Right up there with Equus and Arcadia in quality and depth. Strongly written, but also deftly written. Read more
Published on June 18, 1998

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