Jack Shepherd and Catherine McCormack will lead the cast in Rupert Goold’s critically acclaimed West End production of Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello, in a limited national tour this Autumn.



Six strangers arrive unannounced during the editing of a documentary film. Abandoned fictional characters in search of an author and with an appalling narrative, the documentary maker agrees to film their story in this radical new version.



Six Characters is a dark parable for a media-obsessed age and an exhilarating exploration of how we define ourselves, and what we call ‘reality’, in the 21st Century.



A bold re-imagining of a post-modern masterpiece, Six Characters blurs the border between fiction and reality, between the stage and the world outside. First staged in 1921, Pirandello’s classic has been updated and recontextualised for a modern audience in this new adaptation by Rupert Goold and Ben Power.

‘Brilliantly inventive… an extraordinary night out’ Daily Telegraph

‘Madly ingenius… breathtaking’ Independent

The Bristol Old Vic are offering Bristol Media members top price seats for just £18 for the first three performances.



For more information about the production and to book your seats visit www.bristol-old-vic.co.uk Production runs from Saturday 26 September to Saturday 10 October 2009