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Six Characters in Search of an Author: A Qualitative Comedy in the Making
A discussion about bricolage is presented in a one-act play, a qualitative comedy in the making. The play takes its initial shape from Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of an Author” but is transformed into a more academic, but occasionally comic, dialogue. The characters engage with a journal editor by weaving the ideas and often the words of academic writers into a script about bricolage as a qualitative research strategy. The characters, three of whom are Shakespearean in origin, also borrow or steal lines and bits of plot from other plays, especially “The Tempest.” The comedy ends with another comic offering, a bricolage about bricolage.
No Longer in Search of an Author, a Character Defines Herself: Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author and Eugenio Barba's Experimental Performance Methodology
States that in "Six Characters in Search of an Author," Luigi Pirandello demonstrates that characters are autonomous and that their organic composition stems from something other than the author, actor, or culture. Establishes a link between Pirandello's exploration of characters and theater director Eugenio Barba's more recent examination of the actor/character relationshipat his Odin Teatret company. Suggests that Pirandello and Barba are by no means mutually explanatory: Pirandello's theater was bourgeois and newly modern, whereas Barba's is profoundly suspicious of both middle-class values and the positivism that characterizes modernity. Notes that both do focus on the actor/character divide.
The Platonic Meta-Imports in Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author
Metatheatre is full of ideas comparable to Plato's which give the audience the mutations of truth when they should look for answers themselves. The aim of this paper is to approach Luigi Pirandello's work which is replete with the above Platonic philosophical and dramatic meta-imports. His drama entices the audience to open their eyes to realities through showing them something that is completely made up. In Six Characters in Search of an Author, he tries to re-enact the play of the shadows of Plato's cave. He explores the nature of theatrical processes by making his character escape from life into form and from form into reality
Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author: A Comedy in the Making
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