Six Characters in Search of an Author
by Luigi Pirandello(1921)
Playc. 55 pages
“When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action.”
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by Luigi Pirandello(1921)
“When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action.”
Luigi Pirandello(1921)
A rehearsal is interrupted by six characters whose author abandoned them before completing their story; they demand that the actors perform their drama. Pirandello's 1921 play dissolves the boundary between reality and fiction, between author and character, between theater and life. It was revolutionary then and remains startling now. The Characters are more alive than the actors; their unfinished story more urgent than any completed one. The play invented a hundred subsequent experiments.