
Six Characters in Search of an Author
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 uncertainty: where do we comefrom, where are we going, how do we become what we want to be?Author: Luigi PirandelloPublisher: A&c Black 3plPublished: 08/15/2004Pages: 90Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.10w x 0.49dISBN: 9780413772688About the AuthorPirandello, born in Sicily in 1867, was a well-known novelist andcritic before he achieved international recognition as a playwright.His plays include The Rules of the Game, Six Characte