Opening of the book
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.
(The AŕǵLjǡǪ and AŕǵǡŧǪǪŧǪ of the company enter from the back of the stage: first one, then another, then two together: nine or ten in all.
They are about to rehearse a Pirandello play: Mixing It Up. Some of the company move off towards their dressing rooms. The PǡLjƽǙǵŧǡ who has the “book” under his arm, is waiting for Tƒŧ MĵƿĵƄŧǡ in order to begin the rehearsal.)
(The AŕǵLjǡǪ and AŕǵǡŧǪǪŧǪ, some standing, some sitting, chat and smoke. One perhaps reads a paper; another cons his part.)
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