"It's a gimmicky and rather dated satire, packed with knowing allusions and pleased with its lightweight philosophising," says young Henry Hitchings in the Evening Standard. "It still strikes me as an ingenious artefact rather than a play that embodies its ideas emotionally in the manner of the great American dramatists."Īnd now, thanks to the revival of Six Degrees at the Old Vic, a new generation of British theatre critics has had the chance to be underwhelmed by it all over again. "I was distinctly underwhelmed by Guare's play when I first saw it at the Royal Court in 1992," the Guardian's Michael Billington remembers. Three and a half thousand miles and two decades away, however, not everybody is convinced.
Though when John Guare dazzled Broadway in 1990 with this semi-fictional play about a young black conman inveigling his way into the bosom of the hypocritical New York bourgeoisie, he seemed to have managed it. P ity the poor playwright who tries to be clever they had better pull it off.
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