In Six Characters in Search of an Author Pirandello illustrates the point that in art there is no one reality, only perceptions. Art is one perception held by the one artist, in the case of the play, the author, who brings this perception to an audience. To animate this principal Pirandello uses many staging approaches and techniques to merge art and theater, into real life, while highlighting the shortcomings of drama/art in imitating life. …showed first 75 words of 674 total…

…showed last 75 words of 674 total…planned intermission breaks Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author presents the split between life, and art mimicking life. Bibliography Work Cited Galens, David. Drama for Students. Volume 4 Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1997: 392 Depaul University. "Six Characters In Search of an Author." http://advantance.dapaul.edu/releases/sixchar.html (Retrieved June 1st, 2000). Pirandello, Luigi. Six Characters in Search of an Author. The Compact Bedford Introduction to Drama 2nd Ed. Lee A. Jacobus. Boston: Benford Books 1996. 513-540