Six Characters in Search of an Author: Headlong Version

Pirandello's classic play, updated for the twenty-first century by Headlong.

Blurring the border between fiction and life, between the stage and the world outside, Luigi Pirandello's play 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.

This version by Rupert Goold and Ben Power was first performed at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in June 2008, in a co-production between Headlong and Chichester Festival Theatre.

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Six Characters in Search of an Author: Headlong Version

Pirandello's classic play, updated for the twenty-first century by Headlong.

Blurring the border between fiction and life, between the stage and the world outside, Luigi Pirandello's play 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.

This version by Rupert Goold and Ben Power was first performed at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in June 2008, in a co-production between Headlong and Chichester Festival Theatre.

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Six Characters in Search of an Author: Headlong Version

Six Characters in Search of an Author: Headlong Version

Six Characters in Search of an Author: Headlong Version

Six Characters in Search of an Author: Headlong Version

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Overview

Pirandello's classic play, updated for the twenty-first century by Headlong.

Blurring the border between fiction and life, between the stage and the world outside, Luigi Pirandello's play 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.

This version by Rupert Goold and Ben Power was first performed at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in June 2008, in a co-production between Headlong and Chichester Festival Theatre.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780014159
Publisher: Hern, Nick Books
Publication date: 11/20/2014
Series: NHB Modern Plays
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 96
File size: 1 MB
Age Range: 12 Years

About the Author

Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature. His plays include Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921).


Rupert Goold is a leading theatre director. He has been the artistic director of the Almeida Theatre, London, since 2013. In 2026 he leaves the Almeida to become artistic director of The Old Vic, London.

He was artistic director of Headlong Theatre Company, 2005–2013, and has been an associate director at the Royal Shakespeare Company since 2010.

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