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Characters disrupting a play rehearsal provide the setting for "Six Characters in Sean h ot an
Author." playing today through Friday at 4:lit) in the Pocket theater
'Six Characters' blends fantasy,
reality in philosophical tapestry
By Sheri Metzler
()1 the Knirrald
Beginning Thursday, Theatre 4:80 will be
presenting “Six Characters in Search of an
Author” at the Pocket Theater in Villard Hall.
The play, written in 102 1 by I.uigi
Pirandello, is about characters who interrupt a
play rehearsal and try to get the director to help
them act out their own play. The lines between
fantasy and reality are blurred intentionally in
order to weave philosophical issues of the nature
of reality with an intense drama of human
relationships.
Directed by doctoral directing student Kllen
1 lalperin. the play has been updated from the '2()s
to tin? '80s. The new version is about characters
entering a rehearsal at the University for another
Pirandello play.
"1 want this play to be relevant and im
mediately accessible to today's audience,”
1 lalperin said.
She wants the audience to experience both
the emotional and intellectual aspects of the play,
she added.
1 he cast is led he University senior theater
major Wade Johnson, who plays the father of the
“fictitious” group of characters.
Diane Dellaven, also a senior theater major,
[days the impertinent stepdaughter who constant
iy contradicts the father's explanations She
(Inscribed tile pla\ .is "pretty philosophic «i 1" as it
is really a play within a play.
I his is oni! of th»“ more challenging roles
I've had," Detlaven said of her role as step
daughter. "This is an angry ( haracter who is full
ot vengeance, and I'm not like th.it."
She said the play was e\< iting to work on
because it deals with both reality and pretense
"Sometimes there is realism and sometimes
surrealism. There is a fine line between them,"
she said. "We want to make the ( haracters seem
real even though this is fantasy
The director is played by l’hil Dunn, a
graduate student working for a master of fine arts
in performance.
Other performers include Priscilla Wilbourn
playing the mother, Aaron l)o\ le playing the son,
and Rosemary (lampbell and Ryan I leu itl playing
the children. Members of the acting company are
played by Marry Mergman, Katrina I.evm. Tim
Baxter. Carolyn Hewitt and Marvjane Daniels
Sarah brick and Johnathon Bond .ire the assistant
directors both in the production within the play
as well as the real production
Costumes are In Lori Pacheco, and the light
and set designs are by Darrell Haber and Don
Naggiar
The play will continue through Ma\ 1 with
daily performances at 4: (0 p in Admission is
free
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