The work was written in 1934. It is the penultimate dramatic work of L. Pirandello. It premiered in Czech at the National Theatre in Prague on November 19, 1934, for the first time. Pirandello, who had just received the Nobel Prize in Stockholm, attended the Prague premiere.

In Italy, it was performed on December 13, 1935, in Rome, at the Argentina Theater, with Ruggero Ruggeri in the lead role and directed by himself. "...This play holds a unique position in the theatre of Luigi Pirandello because the problem of human responsibility reaches its most extreme and even most absurd consequences. It is an issue that Pirandello had certainly approached many times. (Six characters in search of an author, Each in their own way. The game of roles. For one or for none).

Only in Without Knowing How does he confront it so absolutely and directly, making it emerge from life, from memory, from past experience and from the present of the protagonist, who is inadvertently called to share it with others.