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On a bare rehearsal stage, director, cast and backstage crew assemble to rehearse Luigi Pirandello's incomprehensible play Mixing it Up. Just as they are about to begin, a group of mysterious people burst in and demand to play out their own melodrama on the stage. And stranger still, they insist that they are not people, but characters who have been abandoned by their author, who left them with only a plot and a burning need to act it out.

And no wonder the writer gave it up: the story is rife with incest, blackmail, death, and suicide - enough scandal to close the theatre doors. The characters, trapped in their half-written fate, can do no other than play out their story. They cannot help themselves; they cannot be anything other than what they are. They are more real that we are, and Pirandello sets out to prove it.

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) was born in Argenteo, Sicily. Originally planning to study law, he quickly turned his attention to literature and philology. During his life, he wrote numerous novels, plays and scientific treaties. Six Characters in Search of an Author is considered to be his masterpiece. Pirandello was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1934 for his contribution to world literature.

Directed by Adrian Goldman

April 13 at 19.00
April 14 at 19.00
April 15 at 19.00
April 16 at 16.00

Malmitalo main stage (Ala-malmintori 1, Helsinki)
Tickets: 9 euros (8 for concessions), available at Malmitalo (tel. 09 310 80835) and Lippupalvelu.