The director of the play, annoyed but intrigued, lets them explain why they’re there.
The play starts off with six people interrupting a theatre rehearsal, saying that they’re six characters in search of an author. Six Authors in Search of an Author is the epitome of an absurdist play as it, first, overwhelms the reader with its chaotic nature and then, dives into presenting existentialist themes like the concept of self and reality versus illusion. Thus, his contributions to the short-lived theatrical movement made him a pioneer and allowed him to display his complex and controversial ideas in his plays. Luigi Pirandello, the author of Six Authors in Search of an Author, did not only follow his fellow absurdist playwrights’ existentialist ideas but also introduced the method of play-within-a-play to the Theatre of Absurd. Absurdist playwrights like Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, who were influenced by existentialists, started to embrace the disorder in the world and make something out of it. Existentialists tried to understand the cruelty of the meaningless of life and tried to expose the crisis that it caused in the human beings. This post-war trauma resulted in the existential philosophy called as existentialism.
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