Word: pirandello
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...looking like a Madonna would make the most terrific sensation and I should hold my head high all the season." There, in a diary entry made at the age of 20, is the essence of Cecil Beaton: ambitious, foppish and unstoppable. He was appearing in an undergraduate production of Pirandello's Henry IV, for which he had also designed the sets and costumes, and it is typical of the man's combination of luck and manipulation that the play was agreeably reviewed in the Spectator and witnessed by Lytton Strachey. Wherever Beaton went, celebrity seemed to hover...
...staged plays by Samuel Beckett, Pirandello, Genet and Robert Wilson. It has also premiered plays by younger dramatists, such as Christopher Durang and Don DeLillo...
Certainly, Brustein and Co, are not renowned for fuddy-duddy programming: the director's last effort was a very hip version of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, and the upcoming calendar of his ART theatre includes a new opera by Philip Glass and Robert Moran, a Robert Wilson interpretation of Euripides's Alcestis scored by Laurie Anderson, and a tentative project by Polish movie director Andrzej Wajda...
...group embarked last Friday on the four week tour prepared with two shows-- Pirandello's "Six Characters in Search of an Author" and "Sganarelle," an evening of Moliere farces-- both of which they have previously performed...
...literary critic George Neveaux wrote, "The entire theatre of an era came out of the womb of that play, Six Characters." Pirandello's revolution in form and content profoundly influenced the works of Sartre, Anouilh, Genet, Camus, Ionesco, Beckett, and many other playwrights. Pirandello's dramaturgy contributed significantly to this new form of theatre--his acceptance of the stage for what it was, his knowledge that it did not need to be a true-to-life copy of the real thing. He saw the stage as a place of magic and illusion...