A stage crewman responsible for reading out stage directions during rehearsals and “prompting” the rehearsing actors with their lines when they forget. After the Manager agrees to turn the Characters’ story into a drama, he asks the Prompter to note down in shorthand the events that the Characters act out, in order to create the outline of what will eventually become the script.
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The Prompter Character Timeline in Six Characters in Search of an Author
The timeline below shows where the character The Prompter appears in Six Characters in Search of an Author. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Act 1
The Prompter reads the stage directions for the Second Act of “Mixing it Up,” and the Manager...
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Act 2
Everyone comes back on stage—the Actors, Property Man, Prompter, Father, Step-Daughter, and the Manager, who tells the Machinist to prepare “floral decorations” and the...
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The Manager sits the Prompter down with “an outline of the scenes, act by act,” and asks him to bring...
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The Manager interrupts the Step-Daughter and Father, telling the Prompter to “cut out that last bit” and stopping the action. Although the Step-Daughter protests that...
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