The Stranger, July 13th, 2006
Six Degrees of Separation
ReAct Theatre
Through July 30.
If you managed to miss both Seattle Rep's 1993 production (you're forgiven for skipping that) and the film starring Will Smith (as a gay guy!), then you might want to skip the next couple of paragraphs. Six Degrees of Separation is chock-full of Art History 101 and penetrating analysis of J. D. Salinger, but in spite of the cultural capital, the play's main attraction is still the squeamish pleasure of getting played.
If you already know the plot twists, you settle for watching fancy people have their lives upended by a trickster fig...
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