Six Characters in Search of an Author
Pirandello's classic play updated for the twenty-first century by the team behind Faustus.

Blurring the border between fiction and life, between the stage and the world outside, Six Characters in Search of an Author exploded onto the stage in 1921 as one of the unique achievements of twentieth-century drama.

Updated and recontextualised in this vertiginous new version, it becomes a dark parable for a media-obsessed age and an exhilarating exploration of how we define art, ourselves and ‘reality’ in the twenty-first century.

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Six Characters in Search of an Author
Pirandello's classic play updated for the twenty-first century by the team behind Faustus.

Blurring the border between fiction and life, between the stage and the world outside, Six Characters in Search of an Author exploded onto the stage in 1921 as one of the unique achievements of twentieth-century drama.

Updated and recontextualised in this vertiginous new version, it becomes a dark parable for a media-obsessed age and an exhilarating exploration of how we define art, ourselves and ‘reality’ in the twenty-first century.

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Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six Characters in Search of an Author

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Overview

Pirandello's classic play updated for the twenty-first century by the team behind Faustus.

Blurring the border between fiction and life, between the stage and the world outside, Six Characters in Search of an Author exploded onto the stage in 1921 as one of the unique achievements of twentieth-century drama.

Updated and recontextualised in this vertiginous new version, it becomes a dark parable for a media-obsessed age and an exhilarating exploration of how we define art, ourselves and ‘reality’ in the twenty-first century.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781854595317
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Publication date: 06/01/2009
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.30(d)

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.
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