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WSC Avant Bard’s Six Characters in Search of an Author

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WSC Avant Bard presents

Six Characters in Search of an Author

by Luigi Pirandello

translated by Carl R. Mueller

Directed by Tom Prewitt

Pull back the curtain to explore the worlds and characters created by words in Six Characters in Search of an Author.  Set during a rehearsal for Luigi Pirandello’s The Rules of the Game, the play finds actors and a director interrupted by orphan characters, seeking to have their story told.  As the actors, director, and characters struggle with reality and theatrical convention, we must ask ourselves, “Is all the world a stage?”

  • Previews: Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012 through Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012
  • Opening: Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012
  • Regular Run Begins: Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
  • Close: Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012

There will be no performances Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012 and Friday, Nov. 23, 2012.

WSC Avant Bard is the theater company in residence at Artisphere in Arlington, Virginia.

For more information, tickets and group rates, please check the company’s website

The Pirandello Society of America Sessions at the MLA, December 2005

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The Modern Language Association Convention

Washington, D.C.

December 28 and 30

Power and the Grotesque in Pirandellian Narrative, Theater, and Film I

“Broken Dolls and Hanging Puppets: Pirandello’s Grotesque Bodies,” Marella Feltrin-Morris, Ithaca College

“The Grotesque in the First English Translations of Six Characters in Search of an Author and Henry IV,” Valeria Petrocchi, Università per Stranieri, Perugia

“Silent Spectacles: The Art of the Obscene in Pirandello’s Theater,” Dragoslav Momcilovic, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

Power and the Grotesque in Pirandellian Narrative, Theater, and Film II

Presiding: Giuseppe Faustini, Skidmore Coll.

“The Power of the Role and the Role of Power in Quando si è qualcuno,” David S. Escoffery, Southwest Missouri State Univ.

“Pirandello and Cinema: The Unfinished Project of La nuova colonia,” Stefano Giannini, Wesleyan Univ.