His last stage credit was doing the adaptation of THE CHERRY ORCHARD for Broadway in 2016, which was pretty roundly panned. None of the three movies he's written and/or directed got as much traction as one might have presumed, either. THE HUMANS movie was greeted with palpable Oscar buzz on the festival circuit, then disappeared onto Showtime with virtually no recognition. I wonder if the general lack of success for these projects -- especially considering his impressive streak as a young playwright -- has had a cooling effect on his career overall.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
