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Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon
Contact Myrna Seifert, Lane Ticket Office, (541) 463-5202
for release January 26, 2004
"Six Degrees of Separation" runs February 6-21 at Lane
EUGENE - “Six Degrees of Separation”, an award-winning comedy/drama written by John Guare, opens in the Blue Door Theatre on the main campus at Lane Community College 8 p.m. Friday, February 6. Additional performances run at 8 p.m. February 7, 13, 14, 20 and 21. A matinee is scheduled 2 p.m. Sunday, February 15. “Six Degrees of Separation” won the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Play and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award.
“It’s rare to find a work that covers so many subjects, so
profoundly, and is as funny as “Six Degrees of Separation”,
says director, Patrick Torelle, instructor of Theatre Arts at Lane. The
play deals with class, race, art, money, education, sex, and literature,
just to name a few of the intertwining themes. It also examines the threads
of chance that link one person to another, claiming that any two people
in the world can be connected through only six other people. This is a
play for adults, containing brief male nudity.
“Six Degrees of Separation” is a fast-paced, affecting piece
about a wealthy New York couple who are called on one night by a young
man, Paul, who professes to be a friend of their kids’ from Harvard.
They offer him a bed for the night; he enchants them with a home-cooked
meal and magnificent conversation. The next morning, they learn that he
is not all he seems to be. Their investigations are intriguing and lead
them to re-evaluate their lives.
Tickets are $10 adults, $8 senior citizens/students. Tickets may be ordered
through the Lane ticket office at 463-5202.
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