Six Characters in Search of an Author

By (author): "Joseph Farrell, John Linstrum, Luigi Pirandello"
Publish Date: March 9th 1921
Six Characters in Search of an Author
ISBN0413772683
ISBN139780413772688
AsinSix Characters in Search of an Author
CharactersMother, Boy, Father, Girl, Luigi Pirandello...more, Il padre, La madre
Original titleSei personaggi in cerca d'autore
Six people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But theyare not ordinary people. They are the characters of a play that has notyet been written. Trapped inside a traumatic event from which they longto escape, they desperately need a writer to complete their story andrelease them. Intrigued by their situation, the director invites themto act out the key events of their livesPirandello's best-known play and oneof the most extraordinary and mysterious plays of the 20th century, SixCharacters speaks directly to an age of uncertainty: where do we comefrom, where are we going, how do we become what we want to be?