Poem on "six Characters in Search of an author"

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• Luigi Pirandello
• The writer of this play
• It is about six Characters
• Who want to be put on display

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• It starts with a cast
• rehearsing "Mixing it Up"
• And the male lead is whining about his chef's hat
• that looks like a Dixie cup

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• Enter a family of six
• The Father talks to the Actors and the Manager
• and asks them to help them
• and find them an author

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• They say they bring a drama
• That live characters was how they were born to live
• The Manager and the Actors burst out laughing
• And the characters tell the drama that is in them all

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• The Mother had two men
• and one had recently died
• That's why she was dressed in black
• and when they removed her veil she cried

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• They told of their story
• and everyone around listened
• Then as the drama progressed
• The eyes of the listeners glistened

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• I can't tell the whole story
• Cause I'd ruin the play
• But it starts with the Mother's story
• and why the Son has been away

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• The Father character
• Wants their drama onstage 
• The Step-Daughter wants to be the star
• and her name on every page

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• The Mother is dressed in black
•  and is mourning a loved one
• The Mother is suffering
• the aloofness of her Son

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• The Son grew up in another country
• and is now twenty-two
• He says he will act nothing at all
• and shares what happened to the other two

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• The theme of this play
• is the theater of the theater
• And the reality of the Characters
• Can confuse the reader

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• Man is nothing
• When the Characters are somebody
• "But a man- I'm not speaking of you now- 
• may very well be nobody"
• (Pirandello, act 2)

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