Six Characters In Search Of An Author Analysis

In Luigi Pirandello’s, Six Characters in Search of an Author, the art of theatre was brought into the real world. Auspicious director, John Iverson reconstructed the way I look at theatre in a very positive way. I witnessed this play on Thursday, March 2nd, 2017, and ever since then, I have been regretting that I did not go each night it was performed. The audience was able to perceive the key themes and elements through the spontaneous, improvisatory, and adaptable acting that the characters portrayed. Infusing new theatrical elements while not over-distancing itself from the original play, StMU’s Theatre’s Six Characters in Search of an Author deserves detailed and comprehensive analysis of its prodigious elements. This essay will offer

Playing the father and main character of this play, Terrill Kucera, deserves nothing but great comments. He is the sole reason I want to observe more theatrical performances. His insights, professionalism, and raw talent were spectacular, but his confidence outweighed them all. He was on stage for a reason, and I believe that reason is that Professor Iverson saw a leader with sufficient confidence with the capability to turn a great play into a greater one. Other outstanding actors in this play including Teresa Valdez, Julia Kheiv, Alan Vargas, Gabriel Reyes, and Allison Dauphine simply made the play what it is. Remarkable. Numerous production elements must be in alignment for a play to produce a quality product. The final product of Six Characters in Search of an Author will be the next analysis of this

After watching Six Characters in Search of an Author, directed by John Iverson, two of the only production elements that I thought could use significant improvement was the lighting design and sound of the play. Even though the play was performed in a small classroom building, I feel as if the lighting could use some significant tweaking, only because the lighting did not fully correlate to the mood of some scenes. If the lighting would have been as detailed in scenes such as the gunshot scene, I believe that the play could have partially improved. During different scenes of the performance, I felt the impression that some scenes were too bright and others too enigmatic. An objective for the actors is to be clear and comprehensible when speaking, but I feel as if the sound was in a stage of flux during the play. In particular scenes, the dialogue was crystal-clear, but in other scenes the sound was very unfathomable and difficult to catch. For example, Terrill’s voice was clean, comprehensible, and consistent during all phases of the play, but the dialogue of actors such as ITITITI was sometimes difficult to