VQR calls the article a confession and prefaces it with that bold tagline, "Pirandello Confesses." Pirandello says he thought to himself, "I have already tormented my readers with hundreds and hundreds of stories. Pirandello talks about his play in an essay he wrote for the Virginia Quarterly Review in 1925. The rehearsal is filled with confusion and disruptions as the characters don't always agree with the developing plot and scenes. The manager overcomes his initial reluctance and decides to take on the strange dysfunctional family characters and have the actors act out their story. The six characters include The Father, The Mother, The Stepdaughter, The Son, The Boy and The Child. They explain that they are unfinished characters in search of an author because they were abandoned by the author who created them. In the play, six unknown people arrive in the middle of the rehearsal of another play. The Britannica entry for the play says it had a "a great impact on later playwrights." PirandelloWeb notes that the play had successful performances and Europe and the Americas after audiences and critics had "assimilated the extraordinary idea." The play has been performed many times since the 1920s and there was an also an Australian film version of the play made in the 1960s.
The film fared much better at future performances.
The initial reception for the play at the Teatro Valle in Rome was not good with Pirandello reportedly forced to escape out of a side exit. "Six Characters in Search of an Author" is an absurdist three act play written by Italian writer Luigi Pirandello in 1921.
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