As a comment on the slippery world of reality TV and drama-doc reconstructions, it's fiendishly clever – but boy, does it know it. By the end, the Producer appears to have become a figment of her own imagination, tormented in Blair Witch style by people who are only fictions. A deeply damaged family riven by sexual aberration and guilt, they persuade the Producer to turn her camera on them, so drawing her and us into a world where the lines between truth and fiction are increasingly blurry. Here, rather than a theatre, the characters come to a TV editing suite, in which a drama-documentary about assisted suicide is in post-production. Description: Program and photographs from the 1967 production of Six Characters in Search of an Author. Rupert Goold and Ben Power's creative mugging comes close to turning the metaphysics into fizzing meta-theatre but despite Goold's signature razzle-dazzle, the evening is more impressive than enjoyable. C an Pirandello's ground-breaking 1921 comi-tragedy ever be made to work in performance? Featuring six characters, conceived but abandoned by a playwright, who invade a theatre demanding that their story is told, it's a brilliant idea on paper but often falls flat in performance. Anahtar Kelimeler: Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author, self-reflexivity, family, me- tatheatre.
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