text: One character in this play becomes irritated at another character’s choice of the word “illusion.”
full_question: One character in this play becomes irritated at another character’s choice of the word “illusion.” Another character in this play is called “worse than mad” after performing Prenez garde à Tchou-Tchin-Tchou. At the end of this play, one character exclaims, “Pretence? Reality? To Hell with it all!” and claims that he wasted an entire day. In this play, coats and (*) hats are put on pegs to summon the shop-owner Madame Pace [PAH-chay]. The play-within-a-play Mixing it Up is botched in this play, in which the Child drowns in a fountain and the Son shoots himself with a revolver. For 10 points, name this play in which the Father, the Step-Daughter and the other title characters seek a writer, written by Luigi Pirandello.
first_sentence: One character in this play becomes irritated at another character’s choice of the word “illusion.”