Six Characters in Search of an Author

by Luigi Pirandello, Eric Bentley (Translator), Eric Bentley (Introduction)

Overview

This 1921 intellectual comedy contrasts illusion with reality by introducing six individuals to a bare stage occupied by actors in rehearsal. Proclaiming themselves the incomplete creations of an author's imagination, the six demand dialog for the story of their lives. A classic dramatic exploration of the many faces of reality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451526885
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/01/1998
Series:	Signet Classics Series
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	4.18(w) x 6.72(h) x 0.29(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

The Plays for Performance series is edited by Nicholas Rudall, former artistic director of the Court Theatre at the University of Chicago where he is professor of classics, and Bernard Sahlins, founder and director of the Second City. They both live in Chicago, Illinois.

Editorial Reviews

Ingenious...a striking re-imagining of Six Characters that heightens the play's theatricality even as it grounds it in the mundane.... It keeps faith with Pirandello's case for the peculiarly irresistible power of illusion.

The New York Times

Ingenious...a striking re-imagining of Six Characters that heightens the play's theatricality even as it grounds it in the mundane.... It keeps faith with Pirandello's case for the peculiarly irresistible power of illusion.

New York Times