![]() ![]() ![]() Though generally only ever gathered through snippets of dialogue throughout the play, we learn about the characters and their relationships with each other The Father and The Mother separate after The Mother falls in love with another man. The Manager at first thinks they're crazy but, after some convincing, agrees to put their play on stage so they may finally have an end to their tale. They claim to be characters of Pirandello's from a play he never bothered to finish. This goes fine until six strange people appear on stage. ![]() The first scene starts with an acting company beginning rehearsals for another of Pirandello's plays Il Gioco delle Parti (The Game of Roles). Bizarre and controversial in its day, audience members supposedly shouted out "Madhouse!" during its first performance because it was so unlike anything they had ever seen on stage. Written by Italian proto-absurdist and Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters In Search Of An Author is one of theatre's first metafictions. ![]()
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