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...Luigi Pirandello's Right You Are (If You Think You Are) is at first glance a grotesque mixture of Shaw and Cervantes. Its moral is the gospel of Don Quixote, that the only reality lies in men's dreams and visions, and its dramatic technique, is the old Shavian play of subverting story for an intellectual theme. There is no such thing as objective truth, says Pirandello, and he manipulates his puppets to prove his point...
Luckily, however, he is not in deadly earnest. The play becomes a fable as Pirandello spoofs the vulgar curiosity of a group of materially minded citizens in a Central Italy town, and shows the futility of their search for facts. The comedy has practically no plot, and what dramatic conflict there is arises from the characters' ideas rather than from differences in their temperaments. And yet Pirandello, along with the Brattle players, keeps the audience continually chasing around after new strands of evidence, trying to unravel the stories of the two protagonists...
Philip Bourneuf takes the part of Lamberto, Pirandello's chorus and sarcastic commentator on the proceedings. His vague, devil-may-care attitude is amusingly played, though it contrasts somewhat to his dull, aphoristic remarks on the relativity of truth. The minor characters are all stylized portraits, and are played by the Brattle players purely for laughs. Outstanding among theme were Cavada Humphrey, Jerry Kilty, and Catherine Huntington...
...sculptures, paintings and drawings. Roman Sculptor Pericle Fazzini displayed a handsome streamlined angel, Milanese Sculptor Giacomo Manzù a series of 25 brilliant figure sketches for works in bronze. Among the pictures were powerful drawings of fishermen by Roman Marcello Muccini, several robustly expressionist nudes by Fausto Pirandello, son of Playwright Luigi Pirandello, and a half-gallery of ex-Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico's latest neoclassical horses, nudes and knights in armor...
...happy result of the script shortage, desperate TVmen have dipped gingerly into the classics and come up with productions-of Ibsen, and Rostand, Pirandello, Chekhov and Shakespeare. Studio One pioneered with adaptations of Turgenev's Smoke, Henry James's The Ambassadors, Sholom Ansky's The Dybbuk, and has also done a modern-dress Julius Caesar and a Grand Guignol version of Macbeth. Other shows dramatize news stories, historical anecdotes, biographies...