Word: laudisi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obsessed with illusion and reality, Pirandello was ironically amused at the assurance of most people that they can tell which is which. He held the self to be an impenetrably veiled mystery. The character named Laudisi (Donald Moffat), who speaks for Pirandello in the play, says: "What can we really know about other people? Who they are, what they are, what they are doing, and why they are doing it?" The busybodies of the world who try to lift that veil find no truth, but they do uncover the pain at the heart of existence. If the motherin...
...from an earthquake: young man, his wife, and his mother-in-law. Specifically, the question is: who is the man or the mother-in-law? For each of them explains quite convincingly that the other is insane and must humored. In between the townspeople and the strange trio stands Laudisi, who the author's mouthpiece...
Under the direction of Marston Balch, the current performances by students and semi-professional players convey more than a minimal amount of the wondrous blend of humor and pathos in the script. And there are some fine moments in John McLean's Laudisi, Carroll Cole's mad (?) young man, and Barbara Joseph's mad (?) mother...