Directed by ensemble member Ronan Marra

Winner of the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Play and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award

Ouisa Kittredge read somewhere that "everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people." When Paul, a young victim of a knife attack, seeks assistance at her family's upper-class New York home, she discovers how true that statement really is. Claiming to be Sidney's Poitier's son, Paul connects to Ouisa and her husband Flan in a way not even their own children have. But Paul may not be all he says he is, and his aggressive, far-reaching search for meaningful human contact creates a web of confusion and pain that - as Ouisa discovers - didn't start, nor end, within her family's walls. A comic-tragedy loosely based on a true story, "Six Degrees of Separation," like a revolving Kandinsky, paints multiple sides on what drives and motivates us in the glare of money, greed, fame, lust and, finally, each other. More Info

"...A highly erudite but piercing examination of privilege and desperation."
Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune

"Signal delivers a confident production...you’ll have plenty to chew over with your date or your friends once the show’s over."
Web Behrens, Chicago Free Press

"Signal Ensemble has long demonstrated a knack for restoring fresh immediacy to deceptively shopworn texts, and under the briskly paced direction of Ronan Marra, a cast, led by Bryson Engelen as the mercurial
trickster, inhabit their roles with unswerving conviction, while the cozy quarters downstairs at the Chopin facilitate a tidy 90-minute running time for a caveat more timely today than ever."
Mary Shen Barnidge, Windy City Times

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"Among the many remarkable aspects of Mr. Guare's writing is the seamlessness of his imagery, characters and themes, as if this play had erupted from his own imagination in one perfect piece." -NY Times.

"SIX DEGREES is the best American play of the past several seasons, and will do hot business wherever it goes." -Variety.

"...cunningly executed, seemingly seamlessly joined, interlarded with clever one-liners, alternating comic situations with mildly disturbing ones...SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION is a play about everything, with something in it for everyone..." -NY Magazine.