Six Characters in Search of an Author

  • Persons of the piece that is to be made ​​: The father
  • The mother
  • The stepdaughter
  • The son
  • The little boy (silent)
  • The little girl (silent)
  • Madame Pace ( later conjured up )
  • The Director
  • First actress
  • First Actor
  • Second Actress
  • Young Actor
  • Several actors and actresses
  • The stage manager
  • The prompter
  • The prop
  • The foreman
  • The Secretary
  • The porter
  • Stagehand

Six Characters in Search of an Author is the most famous piece of Sicilian Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello. With his piece to Pirandello turned against the theater of illusion, and so laid the foundations for the modern drama.

Content

During a rehearsal suddenly dive to six people who are a family and ask the theater manager that he "they" lists. They were created as stage characters of their author, who did not complete. But you wanted to see her play on the stage, want to " live ".

Reluctantly the director agreed to implement their history. He and the actors have to learn the complete collapse of the family, whose victims are the two small children.

The attempt, however, to bring these events as dramatic story to the stage fails because the reality of the stage characters can not be represented by the illusionist of the actors.

Pirandello about the piece

Pirandello about the piece: "Without wanting to, any oppressed by them in great agitation, to defend themselves against the accusations of the other, as his deepest grief and sorrow that from what has been the plight of my mind for so many years: the inability to understand each other. "

Effect story

The piece sparked at its premiere in 1921 by the Compagnia di Dario Niccomedi at the Teatro Valle in Rome a scandal before it made ​​its triumphant by the European theaters. The audience at the premiere was split between supporters and opponents, which loudly " madhouse! Madhouse " shouting. Pirandello and his daughter Lietta who were present at the premiere, had to leave the theater through a side entrance to escape the aggression of the audience. A later performance in Milan was then granted great success.

Through his trilogy of the theater in the theater, and especially by the play Six Characters in Search of an Author Pirandello was in a short time the leading playwrights of the 20th century. He revolutionized the theater and confronted the audience with a hitherto unknown perspective in which any separation between spectators and actors has been lifted and with whom he created the epitome of modern drama ( Péter Szondi ).

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) wrote before the age of 52 he published his first play, over 237 short stories and two novels. This monumental work is often forgotten, as the Sicilian author with his great plays revolutionized European theater and in 1934 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The German -language premiere was on April 4, 1924 in Vienna at the Raimund Theater in Vienna, Rudolf Beer instead. In this presentation, the popular folk actor Karl Skraup was discovered, who worked there as a stage manager in the play and also played the stage manager.

Otto Falkenberg directed the play in the same year at the Munich Chamber Play, Max Reinhardt in the Comedy in Berlin with Max Pallenberg as theater director and Mathias Wieman as a son. Reinhardt staged the play in the following year at the intimate theater of the Deutsches Theater Berlin, where it experienced 71 performances. Later Reinhardt brought the piece also in 1931 at Salzburg City Theatre for the performance and 1934 at Vienna's Theater in der Josefstadt with Hans Thimig as a theater director.

1981 staged Klaus Michael Grueber the piece in a famous performance at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin with Angela Winkler ( daughter ), Peter Roggisch (father), Libgart Black (actress ), Axel Wagner (Actor ), Michael King ( son ) and the director of the house, Kurt Hübner, as a theater director, where the piece dramatically in a convincing manner began in darkness and disorder and viewers protested: " Shame on you, Mr. Hübner! "

Edits

Films

  • Literary work
  • Literature ( Italian)
  • Literature ( Sicily)
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Drama
  • Luigi Pirandello
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