![]() ![]() (Its last London revival, at the National in 1987, featured a then little-known Ralph Fiennes.) What’s more, Pirandello’s dissection of the reality/illusion dichotomy can - in the wrong hands - seem like a hoary theatrical canard that doesn’t actually pan out in performance, especially since so many subsequent dramatists (Ionesco, Beckett and Pinter, to name just three) have over time contributed their own stirring addenda to Pirandello’s 1921 debate.Īs if the play weren’t ingenious enough, Jones has his own tricks up his sleeves. That degree of immediacy is no mean feat, given the status of “Six Characters in Search of an Author” (David Harrower’s new version slightly emends the original title), an 80-year-old text whose importance had tended to be the province of student seminars - OK, class, Pirandello as anti-illusionist template: discuss - rather than re-created anew onstage. ![]()
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