The first time this play was performed, the audience rose in an uproar, shouting ‘Madhouse!’ There’s no other way to explain Six Characters in Search of an Author that has inspired actor-theatre director Trishla Patel who could not get the challenging script out of her head for the last two years. A decade short of a century, the Luigi Pirandello play is renowned for its play-within-a-play format.

The cast of the play, Six Characters in an animated pose Pics/Emmanual Karbhari