The fourth wall’s fall

APPARENTLY Ken Bloom has never heard of playwright Luigi Pirandello, who, post Aeschylus and pre-O’Neill, wrote the 1921 hit “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” in which addressing the audience is most prominent [“Are You Talkin’ to Me?” May 14]. It is the first substantive use of this anti-convention in modern theater.

LONNIE BURR

San Clemente