Six Steps Away
by Michelle Cortez
The Old Vic opened its doors once again to the Association of American Correspondents in London on Feb. 16 and brought back a piece of home. The theatre’s revival of John Guare’s classic Six Degrees of Separation, set in Manhattan’s Upper East Side during the recession of the late 1980s, explores a host of social and economic issues that remain familiar today.
Credit crunch. Asset valuation. Race, status, identity. ...