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The celebrity culture, which Guare deftly satirises, has also become more pernicious since he penned his play. Morally, there seems little to choose between the art gambler, living on the edge of a financial precipice, and a guileful hustler like Paul. And admittedly Guare hits some of his targets dead centre. Guare is not the first person, and he certainly won't be the last, to expose the dubious values of well-heeled liberals:Tom Wolfe did it in The Bonfire of The Vanities and Yasmina Reza in her recent play, God of Carnage.
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When Paul tries to pull a similar trick on a pair of wannabee actors from Utah, he is finally rumbled but not before, according to Guare, he has produced a spiritual awakening in one of his victims.
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He charms an art dealer and his wife, by claiming to know their children but, even more crucially, by purporting to be Sidney Poitier's son and offering them all parts in a putative movie of Cats. But, even if I warm to it more on a second viewing, it still strikes me as an ingenious artefact rather than a play that embodies its ideas emotionally in the manner of the great American dramatists such as Miller, Williams and Albee or, latterly, Tracy Letts.īased on a newspaper report about a New York con artist, Guare's play shows the young, black Paul artfully insinuating himself into the lives of New York's bourgeois. I was distinctly underwhelmed by John Guare's play when I first saw it at the Royal Court in 1992.