![]() ![]() They welcome him in and their evening is transformed. He tells Flan and Ouisa that he goes to college with their children and that’s how he knew their apartment would be a safe place to go for help. Enter Paul (Corey Hawkins), a young man claiming to have been mugged and stabbed on the street. They are trying to charm a two-million-dollar investment out of a friend visiting from South Africa by hosting him in their home. Set in 1990, the majority of the action takes place in the Upper East Side Manhattan apartment of art dealer Flan Kittredge (John Benjamin Hickey) and his wife Ouisa (Allison Janney). With that context, it illuminated for me the play’s core theme: there is such complexity in the stories we tell, to others, about ourselves. But in the years since, I have become a storyteller myself, and have spent countless evenings at open mics and curated showcases listening to polished autobiographical tales. I had read the play a few years after it’s original 1990 Broadway run and I saw the film adaptation in 1993. I didn’t realize that until I saw the revival presently being staged at the Barrymore Theater. John Guare’s play Six Degrees of Separation is a dissertation on storytelling. Allison Janney and Corey Hawkins telling tales. ![]()
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