![]() ![]() This point comes home during the scene in the ‘hat shop’, where the actors are tasked with acting out the scene in which the Mother discovers the Father and Stepdaughter about to be … caught in an intimate embrace. But when they find their Director – and the Father is convinced the Director is the one who can bring their story to life – this Director finds his whole understanding of theatre thrown into doubt as the Six Characters force him to confront some difficult questions.įor instance, to whom does a story or a scene ‘belong’? The author of the play? The director who brings it to life on the stage? The actors who ‘interpret’ the part? Or, if the play is based on real-life events, does it truly belong to the people who lived through the events the play dramatises? They are, after all, really six characters in search of a director. ![]() What they need, however, is someone to realise that story for them on the stage. As Michael Patterson observes in his The Oxford Guide to Plays (Oxford Quick Reference), even the title of Pirandello’s play is a piece of sleight-of-hand: these ‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’ have already found their author – he’s the one who created them – and they already have their story. ![]()
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