Six Characters in Search of an Author

Plot Description: Original Source
The A.R.T. resident acting company is rehearsing their production of The King Stag. Their rehearsal is interrupted by a family who explain that they are characters from an unfinished dramatic work and ask permission to reenact a crucial moment in their lives, a moment from which the actors can fashion a finished play.

The actors agree, and the characters tell their story with much bickering and disagreement. No sooner do they begin to reconstruct the scene than tragedy strikes, however, leaving the assembled company to wonder which of the events they are witnessing are real and which are not. Caught in the irreconcilable clash between day-to-day reality and the reality of art, the director of the company bemoans a wasted day.

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