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...Luigi Pirandello's A Dream (Yet Perhaps Not) is a very strange play indeed. The scene opens on a woman asleep on a couch, with her lover standing over her. The strange light tells us she is dreaming. In a sequence of short scenes, we see the history of her liason with the man. Finally she wakes, her lover arrives, and they play a short scene together. I do not think the play really works, for no present-day audience is prepared for the stopped action, odd lighting effects, or the projection of a movie on the cyclorama that Pirandello...
...last-minute change of schedule has made the Experimental Theater notice on page 3 incorrect, Duncan Foley's "Three A.M." will be presented instead of "The Mirror"--along with Luigi Pirandello's "The Dream, or Perhaps Not." The plays will run Friday, through Monday, not Thursday through Monday...
Baby Want a Kiss is a sort of ventriloquiz, a chance to guess whose playwriting voice is being thrown onstage. Dramatist James Costigan can mimic the voices of Edward Albee, lonesco and the Theater of the Absurd, Pirandello and even James Thurber, but except for a few sallies of wit and whimsy, he cannot speak for himself...
...Pirandello's dramatic skill and imagination in this one work are nearly unbelievable. The six characters of the title have had their lives suspended by their fictional author, who abandoned his play before completing their horrible story. Apparitions dressed in deathly black, they visit the evening rehearsal of a Charles stage production, looking for another author to release them from their torturing memories. Flattering the Director (Joe Ponazecki) and explaining their plight, they alternately relive the painful events of their in-escapable past and beg the cast to stage their story. Pirandello's craft reaches its height in the second...
...terrorizes the cast and family with his pistol while shrinking like a crazed beast from his sister's murder; Murray hides him behind a set and assumes a loud band will serve as well. The effect is slightly startling, to be sure, but grotesque rather than coldly shocking, as Pirandello must have intended...