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Six Characters in Search of an Author Summary & Study Guide Description
Six Characters in Search of an Author Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Six Characters in Search of an Author Plot Summary
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Act I
When Six Characters in Search of an Author begins, the stage is being prepared for the daytime rehearsal of a play and several actors and actresses are milling about as the Producer enters and gets the rehearsal started. Suddenly the guard at the stage door enters and informs the Producer that six people have entered the theatre asking to see the person in charge. These six "characters" are a Father, a Mother, a 22-year-old Son, a Stepdaughter, an adolescent Boy, and young female Child. These "characters" claim that they are the incomplete creations of an author who couldn't finish the work for which they were conceived. They have come looking for someone who will take up their story and embody it in some way, helping them to complete their sense of themselves
The Producer and his fellow company members are initially incredulous, convinced that these "people" have escaped from...
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