Word: pirandello
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...murder, an earthquake, havoc, destruction, despair, and, finally, incomprehensibility and boredom which Mr. Aaron's broad comic direction could do nothing to alleviate. There are no points made, no point of view maintained, and I have a suspicion that there were none intended. Mr. Houghton tries to be Pirandello, but perhaps because he is attempting to be fashionable, he cannot fuse the poetry of the language and the dramatic technique into a real and original point of view...
...culture hero embodying every man's unending quest for his better self. At best noble in a pagan way, at worst blasphemous and sentimental, self-made religions are immune to true-false tests, and their devotees usually ignore the irony implicit in one of the play titles of Pirandello: Right You Are, if You Think...
...failure of America to produce dramatists of the stature of Brecht, Giradoux, Pirandello, and Anouilh is one which Bentley explains in terms of the role theater plays in American society. "In this country, the theater is for amusement, which puts the author at a great disadvantage. Significant theater is written to be taken seriously." This is a motif to which he returns frequently. "Men like Hemingway and Faulkner write novels, because they know that novels will be taken seriously. But the play in this country that is both serious and popular is a real rarity...
Between their act and the performers themselves there is an intriguing interplay, putting in question what is real and what is theatrical, in a way that suggests one of their favorite models, Italian Playwright Luigi Pirandello, himself something of a modern commedia dell' artist. Is Mike's nervous blinking, audiences usually want to know, part of the act or is it real? (It is real but less pronounced offstage.) Are Elaine's black dresses only a stage device? (It is not; Elaine never wears anything but black.) Some signs of tension underlying the humor suggest that Mike...
...Lady Zorro. There was a puppet show, an acrobatic act, a North American dog act, and a show called Don't Stop, You're Killing Me, a revue thinly disguised as melodrama, which incorporated a squad of "police" who, more or less as if sent by Luigi Pirandello, entered the theater telling everyone in the audience to keep his seat until the heavy was apprehended. At the 3,000-seat Blackpool Opera House, the biggest English theater outside London, an expensive collection of British TV and variety stars was headed by Rock Cornish Singer Tommy Steele, earning...