Word: pirandello
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...structure of "Right You Are" follows a simple formula. In the first scene Pirandello's mouthpiece, Laudisi, tosses out a philosophical nugget: You can't know the truth about anyone. The other characters are dubious. The proof follows: Two strangers give lengthy testimony about each other, which aside from being extremely improbably, is contradictory. This throws everyone into a dither, except, of course, Laudisi, who goes around baiting the rest of the east and generally being offensive...
Radcliffe's Idlers open a two-night stand at Agassiz Theater with their presentation of Pirandello's "Right You Are If You Think You Are" tonight. The play is their major production of the academic year...
When the author abandoned them, the characters were stranded in an unpleasant reality. Reality itself is peculiar to characters, because according to Pirandello actual people are merely "fleeting illusions," lacking the specific confines of a drama which would mark them with a firm and definite individuality...
...Brattle Hall Company, aided by Joseph Schildkraut and Ruth Ford, has taken Pirandello's philosophie work and given it life. The theme, that there in an inner reality in an individual which can only be seen once his particular drama is recognized, is bandled with the skill befitting the work. All the tragedy, the anguish of incommunicability, is brought forth by the interplay between the forlorn characters and the befuddled actors...
...Schildkraut, as the head of the family of characters, is excellent. He portrays a tormented soul, whose author has mistakenly chosen a bad moment for the exposure of his inner self. In his expression, his gestures, and his voice, Schildkraut mirrors Pirandello's character in near-perfect fashion. Miss Ford also performs credibly, but on opening night there was just a little bit too much of the philosophical in her voice, a little too much posing in her gestures...