Six Characters in Search of An Author - Adaptations

Adaptations

• 1955: A redaction by Tyrone Guthrie and Michael Wager is produced in New York by the Phoenix Theatre.
• 1959: BBC Home Service, World Theatre radio - "Six Characters in Search of an Author" (translated by Frederick May); Monday 27/7/1959. With Noel Johnson (the producer), Donald Wolfit (the father), Lydia Sherwood (the leading lady), Gabriel Woolf (the son). Produced and adapted by H.B. Fortuin.
• 1959: Six Characters in Search of an Author, an opera by Hugo Weisgall, libretto adapted from Pirandello by Denis Johnston
• 1964: An Australian film adaptation directed by Christopher Muir
• 1973: Danmarks Radio's public television adaptation, Seks roller søger en forfatter
• 1976: A PBS television adaptation directed by Stacy Keach, and starring Andy Griffith, John Houseman, and Stacy's brother James Keach; now available on DVD
• 1987 BBC World Service & BBC Radio 4 2/5/1987. A radio adaptation with Charles Gray, Yvonne Bryceland, Emrys James, and Cherie Lunghi.
• 1994: A BBC film adaptation directed by Bill Bryden
• 1996: Robert Brustein adaptated the play for the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• 2008: A production in the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, adapted by Ben Power and Rupert Goold and directed by Goold, transferred to the Gielgud Theatre, London for a limited run
• 2011: Produced by The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts at Hong Kong, adapted and directed by Wingo Lee.
• 2012: Produced by The Hypocrites at the Chopin Theatre in Chicago. Adapted by Steve Moulds and directed by Artistic Director Halena Kayes
• 2012: Director-choreographer David Gordon's The Beginning of the End of the..., a dance-theatre piece based on Six Characters as well as other works by Pirandello, performs at the Joyce Soho for the month of June.