6 CHARACTERS
​IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR
by
​Luigi Pirandello

CAST
THE DIRECTOR: Kathryn Grace Philbrook
THE STAGE MANAGER: Erinne Kellogg
THE ACTOR: Eric Cuestas-Thompson
THE ACTRESS: Vivian Bettoni
THE FATHER: Steve Gallion
THE MOTHER: Becky Cain-Kellogg
THE STEPDAUGHTER: Amina Ali
THE SON: Karter Duff
THE BOY: Corey Cross
THE GIRL: Keiralee Monta
MADAME PACE: Maria Valenzuela

SET and LIGHTING
Niclas Olson

SOUND
Bethany Bevier

ADAPTED and DIRECTED
by
 Niclas Olson

Nominated
BroadwayWorld Seattle Awards

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Amina Ali
How far would you go to tell your story? For a family of six, abandoned by their creator, the answer is found in Luigi Pirandello’s meta-theatrical treatise on reality, fiction, and the process of storytelling. In the middle of rehearsal, the director and cast of a new play are dragged into the lives of six characters that arrive with a mysterious demand; they need someone to finish their story. As the unfinished story begins to take shape the cast and crew are left to wonder what is fiction, what is truth, and where the line between the two really lies.
 
New Muses is pleased to present an exciting, immersive production of this theatrical landmark. Blurring the lines between performance and rehearsal, audience and performer, actor and character, 6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR is unlike anything you’ve seen from us before.
Dukesbay Theater
508 6th Ave #10, Tacoma, WA
8.12.2016 - 8.28.2016
Friday and Saturday at 8:00    Sundays at 2:00

Press:

“(A)n intelligent, challenging, well-written and well-acted play. It is a play that calls into question the relationships between fiction and reality, between actors and the characters they play, and between characters and the author…. It is a wild and imaginative play filled with absurdist arguments about what is real and what is play acting and about the relationships between actors, the characters they play, and authors, without whom the characters cannot exist. It is presented in the round with no set decoration and no set pieces other than a table and a few chairs.... Niclas Olson… adapted Pirandello's play and does a fine job of directing it. The three lead characters, Gallion, Philbrook and Ali, are outstanding, making unbelievable characters totally believable. Ali is brash and seductive, and has a marvelous laugh. Philbrook plays the director as a most complex character, arrogant and sure of herself, which turns out to be a cover-up for self-doubt. She beautifully and convincingly portrays the director's astonishment at the audacity to these interlopers at her rehearsal. And by the way, the director was a man in the original. Gallion plays the father as a kind of bumbling but sincere man who lurches around the stage in a manner that brings to mind Peter Falk as Columbo.“ - Alec Clayton (The Weekly Volcano)
A New Muses Theatre Company production at the Dukesbay Theater (508 6th Ave | Tacoma)