Review: A More Concentrated and Contemporary "Six Characters in Search of an Author"
Six Characters in Search of an Author ( Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore ) Written by Luigi Pirandello Adapted and directed by Nick Gabriel Presented at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ at NYU (24 W 12th St., Manhattan, NYC), May 14, 2025, and NOoSPHERE Arts (520 Kingsland Avenue, Brooklyn, NYC), May 17, 2025 Sophia Chacon (center) in a previous production of Nick Gabriel's adaptation of Six Characters in Search of an Author . Photo by Edoardo Novello. Luigi Pirandello's classic of metatheatrical absurdism Six Characters in Search of an Author ( Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore ), first performed in 1921 and revised for a new edition in 1925, can certainly come across as postmodernist avant la lettre. One character, for example, discusses the instability of meaning engendered by a speaker's translation of his individually situated meaning into words that are then retranslated by a listener in the context of her own unique inner world, never with the identical unders...