The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome: Two Plays

From an American playwright who "is in a class by himself," two acclaimed plays linked by a character who comes of age in the sixties. (The New York Times)

In John Guare's classic play The House of Blue Leaves, winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play, the Pope is visiting New York, and eighteen-year-old Ronnie goes AWOL from the army to come home to New York and blow up the Pope as he passes his house. In his new play, Chaucer in Rome, it is the year 2000, and Ron an...