Six Characters in Search of an Author

Name: Six Characters in Search of an Author
Author: Luigi Pirandello

by Luigi Pirandello

Play about fictional characters seeking their author and confronting theatrical reality

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Luigi Pirandello

The Italian Nobel laureate who shattered theatrical illusion by making the audience question the boundary between art and reality. Six Characters in Search of an Author permanently altered how theater conceived of itself. His plays anticipate existentialism and the Theatre of the Absurd.

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