Six Characters in Search of an Author

Robert Brustein's highly acclaimed adaptation of Pirandello's masterpiece, a study in illusion and reality which follows a group of characters who try to fashion their life stories into acceptable drama. Plays for Performance Series.

About the author

Nobel Prize winner, Luigi Pirandello was born in 1867 in Girgenti (now Agrigento) in Sicily. He became an internationally renowned playwright, novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. His fictional and theoretical work was deeply influenced by recurrent themes, such as the juxtaposition of life and form, the sharp distinction of the comic from the humorous, and the illusion of reality. His love for his native Sicilian dialect also frequently returned in his poetic, fictional, and theoretical works. Pirandello died in 1936.

Summary

Robert Brustein's highly acclaimed adaptation of Pirandello's masterpiece, a study in illusion and reality which follows a group of characters who try to fashion their life stories into acceptable drama. Plays for Performance Series.

Product details

• Authors: American Repertory Theatre (Cambridge Ma, Luigi Pirandello
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9780929587585
• ISBN: 978-0-929587-58-5
• No. of pages: 90
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 126 g
• Series: Plays for Performance; Plays for Performance Series; Plays for Performance; Plays for Performance Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet