Shortly after, Macky started hearing of a new play about a young man who shows up at the home of wealthy New York art dealers, claiming to be a friend of their children from Harvard University. Macky remembers Hampton as a diffident and distant person who didn't really join in college life and disappeared after a few weeks. In 1990, he studied for an MA at New York University School of Law and, while living in a college dormitory at the West Side YMCA, met one David Hampton. When ATC patron and former Auckland lawyer Peter Macky saw the play on the 2019 programme, he had a wry chuckle about how true its idea of close connection is. Includes a conversation about six degrees theory with mathematician. Six degrees of separation : a play Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Written by US playwright John Guare and first performed in 1990, it's now one of ATC's biggest productions for this year. The cast captures (the plays) charm and gravity. : Six Degrees of Separation: A Play (9780679734819) by Guare, John and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available. Design, graphics, developpment and wrinting by axoona. The world is small they say and these two kids want to put the theory in action. Six Degrees of Separation popularised the idea that we're all linked by six, or even fewer, social connections. There is a theory called Six Degrees of Separation according to which all living things and everything else in the world are six or fewer steps away from each other. The play's called Six Degrees of Separation, but for an Auckland Theatre Company supporter there were no degrees of separation.