![]() The Father explains that they are unfinished characters in search of an author to finish their story. The Director of the play, furious at the interruption, demands an explanation. ![]() As the rehearsal is about to begin, they are unexpectedly interrupted by the arrival of six strange people. Performance by the Pirandello Theatre of Art, Rome, given in London in 1925: the Manager/Director with the familyĪn acting company prepares to rehearse the play The Rules of the Game by Luigi Pirandello. The play was given in an English translation in the West End of London in February 1922, and had its American premiere in October of that year at the Princess Theatre, New York. Reception improved at subsequent performances, especially after Pirandello provided for the play's third edition, published in 1925, a foreword clarifying its structure and ideas. ![]() An absurdist metatheatric play about the relationship among authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners, it premiered at the Teatro Valle in Rome to a mixed reception, with shouts from the audience of " Manicomio!" ("Madhouse!") and " Incommensurabile!" ("Off the scale!"), a reaction to the play's illogical progression. ![]() Six Characters in Search of an Author (Italian: Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore ) is an Italian play by Luigi Pirandello, written and first performed in 1921. ![]()
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