The play opens on a relatively empty stage where actors are arriving to rehearse a Pirandello play. Conflict emerges between reality and appearance as the characters and the stage company struggle to resolve the uncertainties that trouble not just the characters’ existence, but identity itself. While the Producer and actors are incredulous at first, they become fascinated by the characters’ plight and are drawn into their crisis. The drama centers on six characters who interrupt a play rehearsal to ask the Producer to complete their story, claiming their author never finished the play for which he created them. Six Characters in Search of an Author is a 1921 play by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello.
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