six degrees of separation play characters

Many reviewers of the play and the film referred to Elizabeth and Rick as Mormons. Rick and Elizabeth are not explicitly identified as Latter-day Saints by the dialogue, but it is clear that they are intended to be Mormon characters. Immediatly after that, Paul is in Central Park where he meets a young couple from Utah: Rick and Elizabeth. When Ouisa and Flan learn a number of disturbing things about Paul, they kick him out of their apartment, where they had let him stay for one night. Much of the story focuses on the time during which Paul cons a wealthy couple, Ouisa and Flan, by telling them that he is the son of Academy Award-winning actor Sidney Poitier. Paul is a young, exceptionally intelligent African-American man who insinuates himself into the lives of a number of New York families, using a combination of charm, flattery and outright lies. in the lead role as 'Paul.' The movie adheres closely to the plot and dialogue from the play.

Guare also wrote the screenplay for this movie, which starred Will Smith. John Guare wrote the original play Six Degrees of Separation, first staged in 1990 at the Lincoln Center Theater. Starring: Will Smith, Donald Sutherland, Stockard Channing, Ian McKellen, Mary Beth Hurt, Bruce Davison, Richard Masur, Anthony Michael Hall, Heather Graham, Eric Thal

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Six degrees of separation play characters