SOURCE: "Pirandello," in New Statesman, Vol. XXV, No. 634, 20 June 1925, pp. 282-83.

MacCarthy was one of the foremost English literary and drama critics of the twentieth century. He served for many years on the staff of the New Statesman and edited the periodical Life and Letters. In the following favorable review of the Roman Art Theatre Company's stage production of Six. Characters in Search of an Author, he examines the work's major themes and terms it "a remarkable play. "

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Things started to go badly from the first, when the spectators came into the theatre and realized that the curtain was raised and that there was no scenery. The first protests were heard from people who were irritated by what they considered to be gratuitous exhibitionism—and...