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The ___MASK54___ of Blue Leaves is a 1987 teleplay adapted from the John Guare ___MASK85___ of the same title . ___MASK37___ Of The Body is a two - act ___MASK85___ by John Guare , first performed in 1977 . John Guare ( rhymes with " air "; born ___MASK43___ 5 , 1938 ) is an Irish American playwright . He is best known as the author of " The ___MASK54___ of Blue Leaves ", " ___MASK34___ Degrees of Separation ", and " ___MASK37___ of the Body ". His style , which mixes comic invention with an acute sense of the failure of human relations and aspirations , is at once cruel and deeply compassionate . In his foreword to a collection of Guare ' s plays , ___MASK82___ director Louis Malle writes : The ___MASK54___ of Blue Leaves is a ___MASK85___ by American playwright John Guare which premiered Off - Broadway in 1971 , and was revived in 1986 , both Off - Broadway and on Broadway , and was again revived on Broadway in 2011 . The ___MASK85___ won the Drama Critics ' Circle Award for Best American ___MASK85___ and the Obie Award for Best American ___MASK85___ in 1971 . The ___MASK85___ is set in 1965 , when Pope Paul VI visited New York City . Louis Marie Malle ( 30 ___MASK99___ 1932  23 November 1995 ) was a French ___MASK82___ director , screenwriter , and producer . His ___MASK82___ " Le Monde du silence " won the Palme d ' Or in 1956 and the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1957 , although he was not credited at the ceremony with the award instead being presented to the ___MASK82___ ' s co - director Jacques Cousteau . He was later nominated multiple times for Academy Awards later in his career . Malle is also one of the few directors to have won the Golden Lion multiple times . A playwright , also known as a dramatist , is a ___MASK96___ who writes plays .