I'm finally reading books from the reading list I make every year. That's my New Year's resolution: to read only books from my 2021 shelf. And it worked out just fine until January 2.Jan 3, 21

[The Manager] ... You represent the shell of the eggs you are beating! Silence! and listen to my explanations, please! “The empty form of reason without the fullness of instinct, which is blind.” You stand for reason, your wife is instinct.It’s a mixing of parts, according to which you who act your own part become the puppet of yourself.Do you understand?[Leading Man] I’m hanged if I do.[The Manager] Neither do I. But let’s get on with it. It’s sure to be a glorious failure anyway. A reluctant

Stop, wait! It was the Six Characters in Search of an Author! Well, there actually is a connection. Milo Manara was the reason I first got acquainted with Luigi Pirandello.Now that I have fought my way through the play a few song lines pops up in my head."Wooords doooon´t come eeeasy tooo meee …" & "What´s the fuzz, tell me what is happening?"I can easily see the chocking effect it had when first performed, even I don´t quite get that the good people of Milan should be so much more open-minded

There is in Pirandello a double continuity of feeling and reasoning, between character and author. It is this continuity that, pushed to the extreme, makes possible the paradoxical case of the heroes, in this play. There are here dramatic characters par excellence, who refuse the function of the actor until then, integrating it organically in itself, through an a priori incarnation. At some point, they look at their own adventure, played by others ( real actors, or at least professionals ) - bu...

Six characters walk into a theater and ask for an author to 'dramatize' their story. What starts as an absurd interruption to an ongoing rehearsal, enters the realm of bizarre when the characters demand their story be played as they are characters and cannot play it themselves. A fairly complex narrative and a troublesome shifting of perspectives, the play is better seen than read.Pirandello extends the philosophical argument of "everyone wears masks" by giving life to "fictional" characters. We...

Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore = Six Characters in Search of an Author, Luigi PirandelloSix Characters in Search of an Author is an Italian play by Luigi Pirandello, written and first performed in 1921. An acting company prepares to rehearse the play The Rules of the Game by Luigi Pirandello. As the rehearsal is about to begin, they are unexpectedly interrupted by the arrival of six strange people. The Director of the play, furious at the interruption, demands an explanation. The Father explai...

"When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even in many other situations where the author never dreamed of placing him; and so he acquires for himself a meaning which the author never thought of giving him."This is true for almost all of my favourite books. I often disagree with the initial thoughts the authors had when they created their stories, as I form my own distinctive ideas about the characters while r...

I read, or more correctly saw this play performed, in 1968 at the Carleton University Theatre, with a beautiful and intelligent blonde who later dumped me at the uni we subsequently attended, though then at an appropriate distance from me.The reason? Her recently-chosen new boyfriend was from a rich and connected family. And as for me, I was bright, but dull to her.I seemed bright, I say, for I raved to her about this play - but dull at reading her signs and preferences. Diamonds are some girls’...

Six Characters in Search of a StagePresents a comic (tragic?) and confusing cast of six enigmatic characters seeking an author who can put them inside a 'book'. They need this badly, so that they can live where they are born to live -- on the stage, and away from this off-stage world of ordinary people, without 'drama' inborn in them. They stumble on a stage and almost manages to get a director to present their story too. But in the end their play does not manage to get presented -- because how

Recently, casually, a friend mentioned who he thinks I am. It was not at all who I think I am! Among other things, his version of me - inexplicably - is not a Viking. I'm pretty sure he was projecting there, but how would I know? Is there anyone less qualified to interpret me than me?Pirandello's absurdist 1921 play is about how we create our own realities: how each of us choose to play a character, to such an extent that we sometimes sit outside ourselves, watching our characters act out their

Who is Luigi Pirandello?A twentieth century writer from Sicily.A Noble Prize winner.I had never heard of him.This play, ‘Six characters in search of an Author’ is just great. Pirandello wrote this apparition, an invention without oxygen, atop Mt. Etna, or so it seems. Like life, it is completely absurd. More cannot be packed into so few pages. I am still shaking my head.A pinch of tragedy, doses of satire, an undercurrent of philosophy throughout, complex and detailed actors and their exchanges,...

3.5 starsI have never in my 22 years watched a music video I liked, or enjoyed, or didn't immediately regret putting myself through at the expense of all the various plays between the song and my imagination that had flourished in its non-existence. Once you watch someone else's interpretation of something it's hardly possible to completely own up to your own, and I hate being marginal in my own memory—never mind that I will never truly know what a song meant in the moment of its birth, or in al...

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THE FATHER: [With dignity but not offended] A character, sir, may always ask a man who he is. Because a character has ready a life of his own, marked with his especial characteristics; for which reason he is always "somebody". But a man- I'm not speaking of you now- may very well be "nobody". This is one of the most "meta" plays I've ever read, and that's saying something considering the oddball pieces of drama I've come across before. However, Six Characters manages to be unorthodox without bei...

Characteristically Tall “Oh sir, you know well that life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.”Absurdity? Lunacy? Whimsicality? Perhaps all this and well, all this not!This delightful play has a rather unique premise. A set of theatre actors are about to rehearse a play when six “characters” come unannounced and demand that their story be told. They express their utter condescension on being orphaned by their “Auth