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Ep 099 - Six Characters in Search of an Author, by Luigi Pirandello

Overdue

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Luigi Pirandello's most notable contribution to the Western canon is a play about six characters come to life, intruding on a theater rehearsal in search of - get this - an author.

Please join us as we grapple with the metaphysical implications of Six Characters in Search of An Author, recycle Seinfeld jokes, compose a musical extempore, and take a lesson from Craig's acting class.

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0:00.0

While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,

0:05.1

they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.

0:10.4

Plus, these are books you should have read by now.

0:30.0

Sorry, you can never tell what's going to start to become the show.

0:37.7

No, right. I mean, that wasn't the thing, but when I was editing

0:42.8

the choose or an adventure thing, I was actually listening to it.

0:46.8

Always a good idea. But sometimes, sometimes when we just go and we don't have any big

0:51.1

pauses or anything, I'll just slap the intro on, slap the end music on, export, and then I'm done.

0:56.4

Like, I don't worry that much about cleaning up.

1:01.2

Yeah, real high quality stuff that we're pumping out into the internet here.

1:04.7

So, yeah, you guys get to hear all that stuff.

1:07.2

Dirty podcast.

1:08.4

But when the me who's listening to the show either wants to interject something

1:17.1

and podcast me says it, or when recording me and podcast me laugh at the same,

1:32.0

or editing me and recording me laugh at the same time at the same thing.

1:35.7

That's satisfying.

1:36.8

Which happened a lot at the weird voices and stuff.

1:42.7

Yeah, there was a week between recording and editing, and so I kept finding myself

1:46.8

wanting to say stuff that I then said. So, good job.

1:50.6

Good job, Andrew.

1:52.0

Welcome to Overdo, a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read.

1:55.6

My name is Craig.

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