Six Characters in Search of an Auth
Author: Pirandello,Luigi
ISBN: 9780413772688
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 01 Aug 2006
Pages: 192 Format: Paperback / softback
'Six people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But they are not ordinary people. They are the characters of a play that has not yet been written. Trapped inside a traumatic event from which they long to escape, they desperately need a writer to complete their story and release them. Intrigued by their situation, the director invites them to act out the key events of their lives . Pirandello''s best-known play and one of the most extraordinary and mysterious plays of the 20th century, Six Characters speaks directly to an age of uncertainty- where do we come from, where are we going, how do we become what we want to be?'
ISBN: 9780413772688
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 01 Aug 2006
Pages: 192 Format: Paperback / softback
'Six people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But they are not ordinary people. They are the characters of a play that has not yet been written. Trapped inside a traumatic event from which they long to escape, they desperately need a writer to complete their story and release them. Intrigued by their situation, the director invites them to act out the key events of their lives . Pirandello''s best-known play and one of the most extraordinary and mysterious plays of the 20th century, Six Characters speaks directly to an age of uncertainty- where do we come from, where are we going, how do we become what we want to be?'