Six Characters in Search of an Author Lesson Plan

Six Characters in Search of an Author was written by Luigi Pirandello and first performed in 1921 at the Teatro Valle in Rome. Absurdist and highly metatheatrical, the play initially received criticism for being bizarre and inaccessible, but it has since been praised by critics and scholars as a formative work of postmodernism. Critic Felicity Firth called it “the major single subversive moment in the history of modern theatre,” and since its premiere, Six Characters in Search of an Author has been staged in numerous countries, with numerous translations and adaptations.