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The House of Blue Leaves by John Guare

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Name: John Guare
Variant Name: John (Edward) Guare
Birth Date: February 5, 1938
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of John Guare
14179 words, approx. 47.3 pages
John Guare has been lauded as one of the most successful American playwrights of the last third of the twentieth century. He has won three Obie (Off-Broadway) Awards, New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, Antoinette Perry (Tony) Awards, Drama Desk Awards...
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Biography of John Guare
2508 words, approx. 8.4 pages
John Guare, born in 1938, is of the generation of American playwrights that critics persist in calling "promising" and comparing with Edward Albee. After winning an Obie in the 1967-1968 season for Muzeeka and being named the next season's "most promisin...


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The House of Blue Leaves Information
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The House of Blue Leaves is a play by John Guare. Set in Sunnyside, Queens in 1965, on the day Pope Paul VI visited New York City, the black comedy features nuns, a political bombing, a GI headed for Vietnam, a zookeeper who dreams of making it big in...


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The Washington Post
'House of Blue Leaves':
05/17/2007: 740 words, approx. 3 pages
Nothing Is Black and White; Throughout the school year, Fairfax Extra publishes occasional reviews of high school shows written by student critics under the guidance of faculty mentors as part of the Critics and Awards Program, also known as Cappies. Now in its seventh...
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Clearly chaos: `The House of Blue Leaves' is absurd theater in top form
08/27/2000: 498 words, approx. 2 pages
Clearly chaos: 'The House of Blue Leaves' is absurd theater in top form By DAMIEN JAQUES Journal Sentinel theater critic Sunday, August 27, 2000 It's no accident that Artie Shaughnessy, the central character in John Guare's 1971 absurdist comedy "The...
 


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