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...literary work, Sir Philip Sidney attacked contemporary drama in his Defense of Poesy for (among other things) undermining theseriousness of literature. Even today, there are still strong echoes ofthis work-play opposition. A friend recently tried to explain to me why there are relatively few modern productions of Luigi Pirandello's plays despite his highstature in the literary world. Pirandello wrote academic exercises more than he wrote plays, she told me, and so they're very hard to put on. My friend's language alone conveys the split between literature and drama: Pirandello's plays equal academic equal exercise equal...
...Shaw Festival will stage eight plays from March 31 through Nov. 11 in its three theaters in Niagara-on-the-Lake, on the Ontario peninsula, just 20 miles from the falls. Two are by G.B.S.--The Doctor's Dilemma and The Apple Cart--and the rest are by Luigi Pirandello, J.B. Priestley, Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde. Highlights of the repertory season this year include adaptations of Lord of the Flies, the 1954 best seller by William Golding, and Virginia Woolf's A Room...
Best Play Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello...
...Friday, gazing at John Gordan '01's set and listening to the medieval chants issuing from the speakers, I heard a gentleman behind me comment that he thought Henry IV was supposed to be in two parts. The play's content probably came as a surprise to him, since Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV shares nothing with Shakespeare's history play aside from the title...
...Friday, gazing at John Gordan '01's set and listening to the medieval chants issuing from the speakers, I heard a gentleman behind me comment that he thought Henry IV was supposed to be in two parts. The play's content probably came as a surprise to him, since Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV shares nothing with Shakespeare's history play aside from the title...