Cast: Andy Griffith, John Houseman, Julie Adams, Beverly Todd, James Keach. The manager overcomes his initial reluctance and decides to take on the strange dysfunctional family characters and have the actors act out their story. A groundbreaking work which has exerted considerable influence on modern drama. The six characters include The Father, The Mother, The Stepdaughter, The Son, The Boy and The Child. They gradually take over the stage to act out their story, each character representing a different point of view. These are the "six characters" of the title who appear in the flesh in the studio to confront the director and actors with the proposition that their story is more interesting than the play at hand. So much the better, so much the better We can be your new piece. Television monitors in the control booth give way to an electrical interference that inexplicably replaces the images of the actors with the images of six mysterious strangers. 8 Six Characters in Search of an Author of an author. As a group of actors prepares for a rehearsal of a TV adaptation of another Pirandello play-The Rules of the Game-the Luigi Pirandello's modern classic, starring Andy Griffith in a brilliant departure from his television persona as a country sheriff, along with Academy Award winner John Houseman (The Paper Chase), is directed by Stacy Keach, who has transposed the play's traditional theatrical setting to a television studio.
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