Six Characters in Search of an Author

Notes

• THE FATHER
  
• THE MOTHER
  
• THE STEP-DAUGHTER
  
• THE BOY
  
• THE CHILD
  (The last two do not speak)
  
• THE SON
  
• MADAME PACE
  

ACTORS of the Company

• THE MANAGER
  
• LEADING LADY
  
• LEADING MAN
  
• SECOND LADY
  
• L'INGÉNUE
  
• JUVENILE LEAD
  
• OTHER ACTORS AND ACTRESSES
  
• PROPERTY MAN
  
• PROMPTER
  
• MACHINIST
  
• MANAGER'S SECRETARY
  
• DOOR-KEEPER
  
• SCENE-SHIFTERS
  

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.

ACT I