For the 1959 opera adaptation, see Six Characters in Search of an Author (opera).
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Written by
Luigi Pirandello
Characters
Director/Manager
Actors
Stage technicians
Father
Mother
Stepdaughter
Son
Boy
Child
Date premiered
1921 (1921)
Place premiered
Teatro Valle, Rome
Original language
Italian
Genre
Absurdism, metatheatre
Setting
A theatre
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Italian: Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore[ˈsɛipersoˈnaddʒiinˈtʃerkadauˈtoːre]) is an Italian play by Luigi Pirandello, written and first performed in 1921. An absurdist metatheatric play about the relationship among authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners, it premiered at the Teatro Valle in Rome to a mixed reception, with shouts from the audience of "Manicomio!" ("Madhouse!") and "Incommensurabile!" ("Off the scale!"), a reaction to the play's illogical progression. Reception improved at subsequent performances, especially after Pirandello provided for the play's third edition, published in 1925, a foreword clarifying its structure and ideas.
The play was given in an English translation in the West End of London in February 1922, and had its American premiere in October of that year at the Princess Theatre, New York.
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