Answer any one of the questions below:

  1. In the play the author abandoned his characters because he despaired over the theatre's ability to present his vision. How does theatre (in particular) create distance between the author's vision and the audience?

  2. What do you make of the end of the play? Is the Boy dead? In what ways is he not dead?

  3. At a number of points the Actors and the Manager mock the Pirandello play Mixing it Up which they are supposed to be rehearsing. Why? consider the intellectual quality, discourse Vs. action, the use of symbols (eg. the husband=shell=reason; the wife=egg=instinct). Ultimately, is this play (Six Characters in Search of an Author) dramatic?