Six Characters in Search of an Author Lesson Plan

Students may note the specificity of the script's staging instructions. How does this affect your experience of reading the play?

Students should consider how staging, set, and lighting shape the scene in their imaginations. Consider how meta-textual this play is: in other words, it's a play about writing and putting on a play. With that in mind, how do the set and stage directions shape the "reality" of the story? How do they shape the way we see the dichotomy between the Characters and the theatre company, and the dichotomy between "reality" and "performance"? You may want to note how the play demonstrates an awareness of staging as an experience familiar to its...