Tonight We Improvise (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Luigi Pirandello
- First Published: 1930
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Surrealism
- Time of Work: The 1920’s
- Setting: The theater itself and Sicily
- Genres: Drama, Surrealist literature
- Subjects: Suffering, Acting or actors, 1920’s, Reality, Creative process, Drama or dramatists, Italy or Italians, Performing arts
- Locales: Sicily, Italy
Characters Discussed
Doctor Hinkfuss, the stage manager (director) of an improvised dramatic presentation. Dwarfish in size yet gigantic in his assumed authority, Hinkfuss comes on stage to address the audience at the opening of the play, declaring himself, rather than the unidentified author of the play, fully responsible for the evening’s performance. Instead of presenting the usual fixed, unmoving drama, he will present a living, changing theater as vital and unpredictable as life itself. Throughout the production, he interrupts scenes with comments of approval or disgust;...
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