Word: pirandello
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...affected Natasha Navratilova, Janine Poreba is a marvelous Russian femme fatale. Her performance is just overdone enough to maintain the farcical edge, never lapsing into cliched corn. Chip Rossetti gives a pat, almost smug performance as playwright Sandor Turai. Turai is almost a straight parody of the Author in Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of the Character and while studied, Rossetti is more than amusing enough to keep us engaged...
...Fourth Wall is more about drama than it is about anything else. Gurney fills the play with allusions to playwrights ranging from Aristophanes and Sophocles to Shakespeare, Beckett, and Pirandello. The script would make a good final for a drama survey course if the professor asked the students to identify and discuss all the allusions...
...tradition of Pirandello and the Coen brothers Brad Rouse has put the life of the author centerstage. Supposing Rommilly tells the story of Paul (Bred Rouse), a budding novelist with writer's block. He faces not only his own frustrations, but also the wrath of his characters, who demand a conclusion to the work-in-progress...
Incidentally, I would love for Ms. Gleason to define for the more theatrically ignorant of her readers what exactly a Pirandellian "staging" is. Enquiring and incredulous minds want to know. It is true that the plays of Luigi Pirandello did indeed "draw attention to the artificial nature of theater," but only in their content, not in their "staging." Furthermore, I'd like to point out to Ms. Gleason that although a group of people dressed in black who move furniture on stage might to the untrained eye resemble a "tech crew," these people may indeed be cleverly disguised actors...
...show contains a few further surprises, such as the gritty and beautifully painted domestic dramas of Fausto Pirandello (1889-1975) and the best of all younger Duchampians, Piero Manzoni (1933-63), whose balloon full of artist's breath and cans full of artist's feces are wonderfully prophetic satires on a market mania whose present inflation he could scarcely have imagined...