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Madame Pace
Alongside the Leading Lady, the main actor in the the Manager’s production of the fictional Pirandello play “Mixing It Up.” He rehearses his role as the “ridiculous” chef Leo Gala until the six Characters show up, asking to be made into a drama. Proud of his role at the head of the theater company, he insists on playing the Father, even though the Father believes the Leading Man does not at all resemble him. He and the Leading Lady grow furious whenever the Characters declare that their acting does not capture the reality of their story.
The Leading Man Quotes in Six Characters in Search of an Author
The Six Characters in Search of an Author quotes below are all either spoken by The Leading Man or refer to The Leading Man. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Ridiculous? Ridiculous? Is it my fault if France won’t send us any more good comedies, and we are reduced to putting on Pirandello’s works, where nobody understands anything, and where the author plays the fool with us all?
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“The empty form of reason without the fullness of instinct, which is blind.”—You stand for reason, your wife is instinct. It’s a mixing up of the parts, according to which you who act your own part become the puppet of yourself. Do you understand?
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The illusion! For Heaven’s sake, don’t say illusion. Please don’t use that word, which is particularly painful for us.
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The Leading Man Quotes in Six Characters in Search of an Author
The Six Characters in Search of an Author quotes below are all either spoken by The Leading Man or refer to The Leading Man. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 1
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Ridiculous? Ridiculous? Is it my fault if France won’t send us any more good comedies, and we are reduced to putting on Pirandello’s works, where nobody understands anything, and where the author plays the fool with us all?
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“The empty form of reason without the fullness of instinct, which is blind.”—You stand for reason, your wife is instinct. It’s a mixing up of the parts, according to which you who act your own part become the puppet of yourself. Do you understand?
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Act 3
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The illusion! For Heaven’s sake, don’t say illusion. Please don’t use that word, which is particularly painful for us.
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