Question

A girl monologues about “the rockery, the water, the plants” of this place while rocking a baby born out of wedlock between a woman and her husband’s secretary. A young man says it’s impossible to live in front of a mirror that “freezes us with the image of ourselves” after refusing to walk with his mother in this place. It’s not from No Exit, but this place includes a green sofa a girl demands must be yellow and a mahogany table upon which a light blue envelope filled with money sits. A man in this place instructs (*) Leo Gala to wear a chef’s hat and beat eggs. In a (10[1])play’s final scene, a child drowns in a fountain (10[1])central to this place, which causes the Manager to shout, “I've lost a whole day over these people!” For 10 points, name this principal setting of a Luigi Pirandello play in which the title group botches a rehearsal of Mixing it Up. (0[2])■END■

ANSWER: the stage from Six Characters in Search of an Author [accept set in place of stage; accept answers describing the set or stage of Mixing it Up; accept Madame Pace’s brothel; accept the garden or fountain from Six Characters in Search of an Author; accept Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore or Il giuoco delle parti in place of the plays’ English titles; prompt on stage or set or garden or fountain alone by asking “from what play?”]
<Darren Petrosino, European Literature>
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