'John Guare is one of America''s darkest post-war playwrights. The House of Blue Leaves ''is about the clash between American dreams and the American way of death'' (Village Voice); The Landscape of the Body ''moves between a ferry to Nantucket and Greenwich village and is a darkly lyric comedy about spiritual void and urban overkill'' (New York Times); Bosoms and Neglect is a ''terrific American mother-son play'' (New York Post) and Six Degrees of Separation ''is an explosive comedy that exposes white middle-class hypocrisy and prejudice, it is transcendent, magical, a masterwork that captures New York as Tom Wolfe did in Bonfire of the Vanities.'''