num_pages: 192
description: 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 lives ...Pirandello's best-known play and oneof the most extraordinary and mysterious plays of the 20th century, SixCharacters speaks directly to an age of where do we comefrom, where are we going, how do we become what we want to be?
language: English
title: Six Characters in Search of an Author
titlecomplete: Six Characters in Search of an Author
characters: La bambina, La madre, Stepdaughter, Father, Dr Lully, Actress, Il figlio, La figliastra, Mr Pace, Il giovinetto, Housekeeper, Producer, Boy, Girl, Editor, Mother, Actor, Exec, Theatre Maker, Luigi Pirandello, Son, Il padre
genres: Theatre, Nobel Prize, School, Drama, Plays, Literature, Italian Literature, Italy, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 19544
publisher: Methuen Drama