John Guare
John Guare
John Guareis an Irish American playwright. He is best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, and Landscape of the Body. His style, which mixes comic invention with an acute sense of the failure of human relations and aspirations, is at once cruel and deeply compassionate. In his foreword to a collection of Guare's plays, film director Louis Malle writes:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth5 February 1938
CountryUnited States of America
And we remember it as it was when we first saw Maria Tallchief or Suzanne Farrell in it. And now it's Wendy Whelan, it's tomorrow's dancer.
That's why Puccini's work is so alive - because he creates such extraordinary pieces of theater. It's not dependent on personality.
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.
It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.
I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people.
Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.
How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.