Dear all,
Please find below details of the upcoming performances of Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, which will be staged at the Rose Theatre, Bankside from 2-14 April.
With best wishes,
Enza De Francisci (UCL)
Six Characters in Search of an Author
After a successful performance at the Bloomsbury Theatre on November 10 2012, as part of a one-day conference organised by the UCL Italian Department (SELCS) in collaboration with the Society for Pirandello Studies, WOH Productions has now taken the show forward and developed it into a full production.
For more info and bookings click here: http://www.wohproductions.com/new-writing/six-characters-in-search-of-an-author/
WOH Productions present a new English adaptation of Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello at The Rose Theatre, Bankside on the 5th of April at 7.30pm.
On Wednesday 4th April there will be a post-show discussion with the producer Carolina Artegiani in conversation with Emanuela Tandello (Oxford) and Enza De Francisci (UCL).
Well, can you believe this? Someone who is trying to pass himself off as a Character comes and asks me who I am! - The Director – from Six Characters in Search of an Author.
“We are lost”, says one of the Six Characters, interrupting a theatre company in the middle of a rehearsal. Lost, abandoned by their author, The Characters are condemned to an eternal limbo, to the constant struggle of seeking to come to life on stage. What characters would Pirandello leave wandering fatherless? A Sicilian family and their relationships watched through a magnifying glass which reveals hidden fears, needs and brutal instincts.
In the evocative setting at The Rose, the audience will be brought into an extraordinary dimension where The Actors’ and The Characters’ truths collide.
But who is actually “real”?
Italian director, Manuela Ruggiero, powerfully conveys Pirandello’s passion and torments in a surprising new adaptation, explored and enhanced through the use of physical theatre. Manuela Ruggiero, Theatre, Director Actor and Choreographer was recently Italian Consultant on the play Filumena (Almeida) directed by M. Attenborough. She directed the play Words of Honour- the Mafia Exposed that after London (Jermyn Street Theatre), Edinburgh (Assembly Halls) and Rome (Piccolo teatro Eliseo) is currently on in Paris at Teatre Les Dechargeur until 23 March.
“A creative and invigorating piece ... it stands out from previous adaptations of this play in London” Enza De Francisci (University College, London. Pirandello Studies, vol. 33 (2013).