![]() ![]() ![]() “I Am Chrissie” Skylight/Skylab Theatre, 1816 ½ North Vermont Avenue, Los Feliz. To anticipate the Father's confession, one could describe Pirandello as perhaps subject to the 'Demon of Experiment. “Six Characters Looking for an Author” The Promenade Playhouse, 1404 3 rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica. Six Characters often appears improvisational, sketch-like, what the Manager calls a 'glorious failure.' Note the aborted rehearsal, rejected and incompletely drawn characters, hastily assembled sets, and onward. Only time, and a lot of scene work, will decide their stage fate. ![]() This text, entitled Six Characters Looking for an Author, is a new version by David Harrower. The cast of “Six Characters” is mostly newbies. Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author is an extraordinary and influential play, a sharp-edged labyrinth of humour, pity and profundity. and landed the title role in “Mary Barnes” at the Odyssey Theatre that award-winning production - in which she played a schizophrenic - launched her professional career. The show works best when O’Brien leans into her uneasy connection with Chrissie, who deems acting to be “lying to yourself, about yourself, which is the worst.” O’Brien, trapped in a bad marriage, comes to realize that her patient is not only talking about theater. ![]()
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