Six Characters in Search of an Author (Plays For Performance) (Plays for Performance Series) - Softcover

Pirandello, Luigi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0929587588 ISBN 13: 9780929587585

Publisher: Ivan R Dee, 1998

Synopsis

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 this title

Review:

Ingenious...a striking re-imagining of Six Characters that heightens the play's theatricality even as it grounds it in the mundane.... It keeps faith with Pirandello's case for the peculiarly irresistible power of illusion.--The New York Times

About the Author:

The Plays for Performance series is edited by Nicholas Rudall, former artistic director of the Court Theatre at the University of Chicago where he is professor of classics, and Bernard Sahlins, founder and director of the Second City. They both live in Chicago, Illinois.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivan R Dee
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0929587588
• ISBN 13: 9780929587585
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88