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Six Characters In Search Of An Author Luigi Pirandello The line separating reality from illusion is a delicate and almost invisible one. We try constantly to distinguish between art and life only to realize the hopelessness of our efforts. The night of the final performance of Six Characters was over. The audience had long since gone and the actors remained sullen as they slowly removed their make. up. The complaint was that the audience was obnoxious and obviously did not grasp the true meaning of Six Char- acters In Search Of An Author. Lines that were played for their dramatic intensity were laughed at as melodramatic. Comic reliefs were given cool acceptance. The audience had failed to grasp the actors' interpretation. Then one actor realized that this group of actors was illustrative of Pirandello's main idea in his play. No per. son is an ultimate authority when judging art. Life" is not fixed but is constantly unmasking itself to reveal new faces. When confronted with the dilemma of the actors, life can become a bizarre experience. Each interpretation of life, art, or of Six Characters is as diffuse as the audiences in the theater. No one has yet darkened the fine line between that which one calls life and that which is bigger than life.