The Broadway revival may make it appropriate to look back at Hampton as well as to Guare. But it’s unlikely they know much about Hampton’s life beyond the way it’s been adapted and altered for the play – and what happened after the show debuted. Some may even know that it was inspired by the true story of David Hampton. The thousands of people streaming in to see John Guare’s play on Broadway these days may enjoy the show, the acting, the writing and the production. And from another point of view, the claim that he was in the show was fiction – something in which David Hampton, like John Guare, specialized. To an extent, he was all over John Guare’s famous play. New York Magazine later reported that David Hampton, the man whose life inspired Six Degrees of Separation, was going around, telling people that he was “in” the show. It was true or a lie, depending on your point of view. More specifically, he said he was in Six Degrees of Separation. One night at a club many years ago, I met someone who told me he was appearing in a big play.
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