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; available on DVD 1987 BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4 2 May 1987: A radio adaptation with Charles Gray, Yvonne Bryceland, Emrys James, and Cherie Lunghi 1992: A BBC film adaptation directed by Bill Bryden 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. In popular culture "Six Charlies in Search of an Author" (1956), episode of The Goon Show Eight Characters in Search of a Sitcom (2003) – starring Ed Asner, James L. Brooks, Georgia Engel, Valerie Harper and Gavin MacLeod, written and directed by Matthew Asner and Matthew Gold Dead White Writer on the Floor (2011) by Drew Hayden Taylor, a play borrowing from the Theatre of the Absurd featuring a cast of characters inside a writer’s head "12 Characters in Search of an Apocalypse: On the Road" (2017) – essay by American author Andrew Boyd that was turned into a travelling conversation / performance The BBC drama Staged (2020) features David Tennant and Michael Sheen attempting to rehearse the play via internet video conferencing during a period of COVID-19 lockdown. Six Characters In Search of an Outlet (2016), a widely circulated cartoon in The New Yorker by illustrator Liam Francis Walsh The 2022 Italian movie La Stranezza, directed by Roberto Andò, tells how Pirandello, played by Toni Servillo, was inspired to create the play following the meeting with a group of amateur performers lead by actors Onofrio Principato and Sebastiano Vella, played by comedy duo Ficarra e Picone. See also A Sensation Novel – another play of the same genre from the 1870s by W. S. Gilbert At Swim-Two-Birds – novel by Flann O'Brien Stranger than Fiction – film starring Will Ferrell with similar themes References Sources External links (In original Italian; Pirandello's revised version) Pirandello, Luigi. "Pirandello Confesses . . .: Why and How He Wrote 'Six Characters in Search of an Author'", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1925. 1921 plays Italian plays adapted into films Metafictional plays Plays by Luigi Pirandello Self-reflexive plays Theatre controversies Works set in theatres Plays adapted