Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Dealing and drifting

Six Degrees of Separation<br /> Old Vic, until 3 April The Little Dog Laughed <br /> Garrick, booking to 10 April

issue 30 January 2010

Six Degrees of Separation
Old Vic, until 3 April

The Little Dog Laughed
Garrick, booking to 10 April

Even those who’ve never entered a theatre know the title. John Guare’s 1990 play, Six Degrees of Separation, tells of a penniless black hustler, Paul, who inveigles his way into New York’s upper-class society by claiming to be the son of Sidney Poitier.

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