- Imprint: BBC Digital Audio
- ISBN: 9781529986433
- Length: 449 minutes
- Price: £14.00
Six Characters in Search of an Author & other plays
Three Full-Cast BBC Radio Productions
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A selection of plays by the award-winning Italian playwright – Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello was an Italian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature. This collection features a selection of his most renowned plays.
Six Characters in Search of an Author - The 1921 play about the nature of theatre and the problems of theatricality, in which six characters, whose author has abandoned them mid-process, turn up at a rehearsal and demand to be played by the actors present in order to resolve their tragedy and become 'real'.
The Rules of the Game - A town in Italy, 1919: Leone and Silia, man and wife, live apart, and Guido is Silia's lover. There is an uncanny lack of jealousy on Leone's part, for he seems a man without any emotional cares whatever: to him it is all a game. It can still be a dangerous game....
Henry IV - A madman is shut up in a villa in Italy following an accident at a carnival. Twenty years later his friends come to visit him. Is he still mad, or is he sane? What is madness? What is sanity?
'First Night' - A short storyThe phenomenal casts in these productions include: Juliette Binoche, Maurice Denham, Cherie Lunghi, Charles Grey, Oliver Ford Davies, Ben Daniels, Martin Jarvis and Mary Wimbush.
Luigi Pirandello was an Italian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature. This collection features a selection of his most renowned plays.
Six Characters in Search of an Author - The 1921 play about the nature of theatre and the problems of theatricality, in which six characters, whose author has abandoned them mid-process, turn up at a rehearsal and demand to be played by the actors present in order to resolve their tragedy and become 'real'.
The Rules of the Game - A town in Italy, 1919: Leone and Silia, man and wife, live apart, and Guido is Silia's lover. There is an uncanny lack of jealousy on Leone's part, for he seems a man without any emotional cares whatever: to him it is all a game. It can still be a dangerous game....
Henry IV - A madman is shut up in a villa in Italy following an accident at a carnival. Twenty years later his friends come to visit him. Is he still mad, or is he sane? What is madness? What is sanity?
'First Night' - A short storyThe phenomenal casts in these productions include: Juliette Binoche, Maurice Denham, Cherie Lunghi, Charles Grey, Oliver Ford Davies, Ben Daniels, Martin Jarvis and Mary Wimbush.