![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The producer and a company of actors arrive and begin reading out stage directions the actors complain about the script, but the producer (who also serves as director) explains that he “can’t get hold of good French plays any more so that now we’re reduced to putting on plays by Pirandello.” Before the rehearsal can get underway, an attendant comes up the central aisle of the auditorium and announces unexpected visitors. A stage-hand is starting to build a set, but the stage manager interrupts him to say that it is time for rehearsal. When the lights come up on Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author ( 1921), the first thing the audience sees is a bare stage, with no scenery and only a few folding tables and chairs scattered about. ![]()
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