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

Iulia Isar (Director), Nick Mauldin (Dramaturg), Nina Frantzeskaki (ASM), Xinbo Feng (Asia), FCatalina Cazacu (Pam), Nia Vasileva (Minne), Benjamin Danielsson (Greg), Brady Lernihan (Bodhi), Riley Marinelli (Woody), Miguel Angelo (Father), Muuli Mattila (Mother), Salle Salee (Stepdaughter), Ewens Abid (Son), Maria Lisberg-Jonasson (Teenage Daughter), Emilie Finkielman (Madame Pavlova)

Creatives/Company

Author: Luigi Pirandello
Presented by: East 15 Acting School (MFA Acting / MFA Acting International Graduates)
Adapted by: Matthew Lloyd
Director(s): Matthew Lloyd, Zoe Zhang (assistant)
Costume: Rebecca White
Lighting(s): Katrin Padel, Josh Holland
Sound: Mark Webber
Stage Manager: Nikki Thompson