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Sure enough, Liz and Richard Burton had landed at Kennedy Airport on one of their guest appearances in the U.S. They were off to Quogue, Long Island, and then to Arizona to see Liz's mother. In July, Richard will star in a film from a Pirandello short story and Liz in the cinematic adaptation of Muriel Spark's chiller The Driver's Seat. But Richard still maintains that some day he's going to throw it all over and become an Oxford don. According to Oxford, it is up to him to choose the date...
...through of that play with in the play gives Molnar's own a rousingly hilarious third act, call it tipsy Pirandello. He gets a very able assist from the daffy humor of P.G. Wodehouse's adaptation. Earlier on, The Play's the Thing is not always spirited...
HENRY IV by LUIGI PIRANDELLO...
Theater-minded people suffer from the belief that Pirandello is a complex and difficult writer. Their tendency is to approach him with excessive reverence, especially since his great theme concerns the intellectually intriguing question of the impermanence of identity-a series of masks that men put on and take off without fully realizing what they are up to. Of all his plays, Henry IV is the least-often produced and the most-often referred to as his masterpiece. This stately revival suggests plenty of reasons for the former condition, few for the latter contention-and may even tempt revaluation...
...then, is sane? Who is crazy? Who cares? Pirandello's paradoxes are too thin-and at this late date too familiar-to sustain the weight of words he thought were required to explain them. Bemused by abstractions, he neglected to write characters who have life and interest in their own right...