Major works:
The House of Blue Leaves • Six Degrees of Separation
“More than any other American playwright, John Guare’s work feels uncannily prophetic. 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.”—Tony Kushner
“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.”—Louis Malle
“Guare’s iconic play [The House of Blue Leaves] not only holds up, it still sets the bar for smart comic lunacy.”—Variety
Books
