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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 822.92
Fabric Type: 9781854595317
Legal Disclaimer: 1854595318
Maximum Color Depth: Nick Hern Books
Metal Type: Nick Hern Books
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 96
Total External Bays Free: June 01, 2009
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Features:- ISBN13: 9781854595317
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Product Description:
Pirandello's classic play updated for the twenty-first century by the team behind Faustus.
Blurring the border between fiction and life, between the stage and the world outside, Six Characters in Search of an Author exploded onto the stage in 1921 as one of the unique achievements of twentieth-century drama.
Updated and recontextualised in this vertiginous new version, it becomes a dark parable for a media-obsessed age and an exhilarating exploration of how we define art, ourselves and ‘reality’ in the twenty-first century.
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This isn't a play but an experience. Seeing how well many of the other reviewers summed it up, I won't add too much. This simply is one of those books that you just have to read. No, you don't need to know a great deal about Italian literature, as the questions raised here are universal in nature. The translation is great, so you don't have to worry about anything not coming across well. If you know about that 3% project, that says that less than 3% of all books published in the USA are translated ... Read More
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A play containing a play within a play. Just as the title states, 6 characters go in search of someone to tell their story and portray their life. It is cleverly well-written with the characters getting in fights with the actors who are to portray them as well as getting into arguments with the director who is to write their story. The story they tell is insignificant in relation to the set-up they provide. After hearing their story, you are left with a feeling of "is that all?" If I were approached ... Read More
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Luigi Pirandello kicked theatre convention out the door with "Six Characters in Search of an Author." Illusion and reality get a bit bent out of shape, as fictional characters stroll about and converse with managers and actors. It's a brilliant piece of existentialist work, and one that had a distinct effect on theatre after that.
It opens with several unnamed theatre people -- the Manager, the Leading Man, the Prompter -- rehearsing a play in an empty theatre. "During this manoeuvre, the ... Read More
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Luigi Pirandello's 1921 play "Six Characters in Search of an Author" ("Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore") has the deserved reputation of being the first existentialist drama and having a profound effect on later playwrights, especially those practitioners of the Theater of the Absurd such as Samuel Beckett ("Waiting for Godot"), Eugene Ionesco ("Rhinoceros"), and Jean Genet ("The Maids"). Pirandello's writing often focuses on elements of madness, illusion and isolation, all of which are inspired by the ... Read More
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I highly recommend the Signet Classics edition of this play, translated by Eric Bentley. He provides a wonderful opening essay, as well as Pirandello's own forward.
The plot, I'm sure you know, involves six characters who stumble upon a theater rehearsal. They are not so much looking for an author as a play in which to exist. Pirandello breaks the fourth wall as no other author had before him. It is a very daring and original piece. A must for any serious student of drama.
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