Six Characters in Search of an Author

Details

Six characters appear on a stage that is being used for the rehearsal of a Pirandello play. They ask the Stage Manager for help. Created and then discarded by an author, they seek another author to cast them in a play and let them play out their roles. A group of actors steps forward to portray the lives that the six characters have just described, but when they do so the characters object to their re-enactment, claiming that it distorts the truth. When one of the characters commits suicide, the rest of the characters mourn his death while the actors insist nervously that it is only make believe. Which is it? And how will the situation be resolved?

Cast/Performers

Craig Foot, Aurelie Chandler, Tristan Chacksfield, Elayce Ismail, Joseph Brown, Jennie Coles, Harriet Cooper

Creatives/Company

Author: Luigi Pirandello
Translation: Frederick May
Producer: Ben O'Neill (for UCL Union Drama Society)
Director: Emily Lewis
Design: Nicholas Pope
Lighting: Mary Pope
Costume(s): Claire Hardaker, Tuba Mutlu