Exploring difference between 'Art' and 'Life' in Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six Characters in Search of an Author is the most famous and celebrated play by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello. In this play, a group of actors are preparing to rehearse for a Pirandello play. While starting the rehearsal, they are interrupted by the arrival of six characters. The leader of the characters, the father, informs the manager that they are looking for an author. He explains that the author who created them did not finish their story, and that they therefore are unrealized characters who have not been fully brought to life. The manager tries to throw them out of the theater, but becomes more intrigued when they start to describe their story. After their story, the manager agrees to become author for them. But several artistic difficulties come in his ways. Characters do not like his play as they have different perceptions which don't match with author's vision. Fed up with the whole thing, he calls for the end of the rehearsal. This paper tries to analyze difference between “Art” and “Life” in Pirandello's Six Character in Search of an Author