6 People, NO LIVES

In the play Six characters in search of an author, by Luigi Pirandello is a very odd play. I felt that as i was reading it, I had trouble concentrating and keeping on task. Its not that it was the worst play I have ever read, but I felt there was no real story to it. Just as the title describes it, six people looking for an author. I felt that once they had found their author, it was a diction of how to conduct and manage a play. "On the stage you can have a character becoming too prominent and overshadowing all the others. The thing is to pack them all into a neat little framework and then act what is actable. I am aware of the fact that everyone has his own interior life which he wants very much to put forward. But the difficulty lies in this fact: to set out just so much as is necessary for the stage, taking the other characters into consideration...." I felt that I was not reading a play, but reading the performance of the staging of a play. I overall really did not appreciate this play, I found it long and extremely boring. I feel that since the play was an actual play in the making, that one could not even get the whole story of what happened, other than a few sob lines here and there. I felt that the only two characters that even grabbed my attention was the step daughter and the Father. They were so dramatic and eccentric about what was said, how it was acted, and especially how they were perceived through another person. I feel that I would have to read this play several times before I would even be able to grasp its point, I did not really enjoy it.