Six Characters in Search of an Author

Summary: 1954 BBC live outside broadcast from the Library Theatre, Manchester of Pirandello’s drama Six Characters in Search of an Author. ‘Tonight’s production is designed for television but is broadcast from a theatre - appropriately since the action takes place inside a theatre’ (Radio Times, 16 April 1954, p. 26).
Theatre play: Six Characters in Search of an Author [Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore] by Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) [more information]
Play synopsis: Pirandello’s absurdist classic is about the nature of theatre. Six characters, who have been abandoned tby their author, arrive at a rehearsal and demand to be played by the actors who are there. The characters attempt to resolve their tragedy and in the process become ‘real’.
Production history: First staged in Rome in 1921.
Date of transmission: Tuesday 20 April 1954
Time: 9.20-10.50pm
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC
Theatre company: Manchester Library Theatre Company

Producer

Royston Morley

Playwright

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)

Translator

Frederick May

Cast

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