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Six Characters in Search of an Author

Luigi Pirandello

Pirandello's masterpiece, a study in illusion and reality, follows a group of characters who try to fashion their fife stories into acceptable drama. Mr. Brustein's new rendering is accessible, contemporary, and highly speakable while retaining the flavor of the Italian original.
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Ivan R. Dee
Pages: 86 • Trim: 5¾ x 8¾
978-0-929587-58-5 • Paperback • January 1998 • $9.95 • (£7.99)
978-1-4616-9946-0 • eBook • January 1998 • $8.99 • (£6.99)
Series: Plays for Performance Series
Subjects: Fiction / Classics, Drama / General, Performing Arts / General
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.
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


Six Characters in Search of an Author

Cover Image
Paperback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • Pirandello's masterpiece, a study in illusion and reality, follows a group of characters who try to fashion their fife stories into acceptable drama. Mr. Brustein's new rendering is accessible, contemporary, and highly speakable while retaining the flavor of the Italian original.
Details
Details
  • Ivan R. Dee
    Pages: 86 • Trim: 5¾ x 8¾
    978-0-929587-58-5 • Paperback • January 1998 • $9.95 • (£7.99)
    978-1-4616-9946-0 • eBook • January 1998 • $8.99 • (£6.99)
    Series: Plays for Performance Series
    Subjects: Fiction / Classics, Drama / General, Performing Arts / General
Author
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.
Reviews
Reviews
  • 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


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