Six Characters in Search of an Author & other plays

Three Full-Cast BBC Radio Productions

De: Luigi Pirandello

Narrado por: Maurice Denham, Oliver Ford Davies, Ben Daniels, Martin Jarvis, Mary Wimbush, Juliette Binoche, Cherie Lunghi, Charles Grey, David Sibley, Kevin McNally, Sarah Badel, Francis Matthews, James Goode, Ken Cumberlidge, Brian Hewlett

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.