All of Pirandello's plays are built for acting, and only incidentally for reading. We make this observation with "Right You Are" especially in mind, since that play, above all, is a test for the actor. It is typical of Pirandello for its rapidity, its harshness and its violence--the skill with which the tense tableau is drawn out of pure dialectic, pure "conversation." Moreover, it states a fundamental preoccupation of Pirandello in peculiarly lucid and striking fashion. Perhaps a better rendering of the title _Così è (se vi pare)_ will occur to many. Ludwig Lewisohn (happily, I thought) suggested "As You Like It," no less. A possibility, quite in the spirit of Pirandello's title in general, would have been another Shakespearean reminiscence: "... and Thinking Makes It So." We have kept something approximating the literal, which would be: "So it is (if you think so)." The text of the "Six Characters" is that of the translation designated by the author and which was used in the sensational productions of the play given in London and New York. A.L. CONTENTS PREFATORY NOTE SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR--A COMEDY IN THE MAKING "HENRY IV." RIGHT YOU ARE (IF YOU THINK SO!) THREE PLAYS SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR (_Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore_) A COMEDY IN THE MAKING BY LUIGI PIRANDELLO TRANSLATED BY EDWARD STORER CHARACTERS OF THE COMEDY IN THE MAKING: THE FATHER. THE MOTHER. THE STEP-DAUGHTER. THE SON. THE BOY. THE CHILD. (_The last two do not speak_.) MADAME PACE. ACTORS OF THE COMPANY THE MANAGER. LEADING LADY. LEADING MAN. SECOND LADY. LEAD. 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. SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR A COMEDY IN THE MAKING ACT I. _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._ _The spectators will find the curtain raised and the stage as it usually is during the day time. It will be half dark, and empty, so that from the beginning the public may have the impression of an impromptu performance._ _Prompter's box and a small table and chair for the manager._ _Two other small tables and several chairs scattered about as during rehearsals._ _The actors and actresses of the company enter from the back of the stage:_