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    Four Baboons Adoring the Sun and Other Plays

    Author John Guare
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    Knopf | Vintage
    On sale Nov 30, 2016 | 188 Pages | 9780525434382
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    The setting is Sicily, the island where the gods once spent their holidays. The principals are a newlywed couple in their forties, who hope to meld the children of their previous marriages into a brave, new, postnuclear family. But in John Guare's vastly original and eerily beautiful new play, any family may be reconstructed as a tragic pantheon, enacting passion as ancient as the strata of an archaeological dig and as catastrophic as an earthquake.
    John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation won the 1990 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, as well as the Hull Warriner Award and the Obie. The House of Blue Leaves won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play of 1971 and received four Tony Awards in its revival at Lincoln Center in 1986. His screen play for Louis Malle's Atlantic City won the New York, Los Angeles, and National Film Critics Circle awards, as well as an Oscar nomination. Mr. Guare, a longtime council member of the Dramatists Guild, was elected in 1989 to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York. View titles by John Guare

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    The setting is Sicily, the island where the gods once spent their holidays. The principals are a newlywed couple in their forties, who hope to meld the children of their previous marriages into a brave, new, postnuclear family. But in John Guare's vastly original and eerily beautiful new play, any family may be reconstructed as a tragic pantheon, enacting passion as ancient as the strata of an archaeological dig and as catastrophic as an earthquake.

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    John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation won the 1990 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, as well as the Hull Warriner Award and the Obie. The House of Blue Leaves won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play of 1971 and received four Tony Awards in its revival at Lincoln Center in 1986. His screen play for Louis Malle's Atlantic City won the New York, Los Angeles, and National Film Critics Circle awards, as well as an Oscar nomination. Mr. Guare, a longtime council member of the Dramatists Guild, was elected in 1989 to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York. View titles by John Guare

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