Six Characters
In Six Characters in Search of an Author Pirandello illustrates the point that in art there is no one reality, only perceptions. Art is one perception held by the one artist, in the case of the play, the author, who brings this perception to an audience. To animate this principal Pirandello uses many staging approaches and techniques to merge art and theater, into real life, while highlighting the shortcomings of drama/art in imitating life. I noted three such techniques while reading this play: the lines spoken by the "interesting" characters, the play structure pertaining to acts and scenes, and the play directions within the play. To illustrate this first point we take notice of the lines the "most interesting characters" speak in the first few pages of the play. In this section these characters are pleading with the manager to take an interest in their story. However during their plea these characters fight amongst themselves, arguing their own perspective on the "drama" they "carry within" themselves. The father, who begins to tell the story
of their "drama", is interrupted countless times by the mother, the stepdaughter, and the son. "Louder? Louder? What are you talking about? These aren't matters which can be shouted at the top of one's voice. The Compact Bedford Introduction to Drama 2nd Ed. As the father describes "the whole trouble lies here. Consequently to bring realism to Six Characters in Search of a Author the play is left without intermission and definite breaks, or acts. Rejecting the conventional framework of a typical play, Pirandello brings realism to his play by running his play without acts, scenes, or intermissions.
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