Six Characters in Search of an Author

Name: Six Characters in Search of an Author
Author: Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello, translated by Edward Storer

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Dramatis Personae

Characters of the Comedy in the Making

The Father
The Mother
The Step-Daughter
The Son
The Boy
The Child

(The last two do not speak.)
Madame Pace

Actors of the Company

The Manager
Leading Lady
Leading Man
Second Lady Lead
L’Ingénue
Juvenile Lead
Other Actors And Actresses
Property Man
Prompter
Machinist
Manager’s Secretary
Door-Keeper
Scene-Shifters.

Act I

Daytime. The stage of a theatre.

N.B. The Comedy is without acts or scenes. The performance is interrupted once, without the curtain being lowered, when the manager and the chief characters withdraw to arrange the scenario. A second interruption of the action takes place when, by mistake, the stage hands let the curtain down.

The spectators will find the curtain raised and the stage as it usually is during the day time. It will be half dark, and empty, so that from the beginning the public may have the impression of an impromptu performance.

Prompter’s box and a small table and chair for the manager.

Two other small tables and several chairs scattered about as during rehearsals.

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