Word: zabielski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human interest" newspaper account of her plight brings other characters scur rying. An aging writer (Larkin Ford) thinks the governess's story might make a good plot for his next novel. Her ex-fiance (Lucien Zabielski) throws himself at her feet in the belief that she tried to commit suicide out of love for him. Her former employer (Gordon Gould), the fa ther of the dead child, turns out to have been her adulterous lover. Yet, in seek ing the truth each character continues to live out a lie. Why? The governess offers an answer in a gently despairing...
Brill is affecting as the governess, Gould radiates sensual magnetism as her employer lover, and Zabielski is ardent and elegant as the ex-fiance. But the dry winy brilliance of Pirandello dominates the evening. He carved out the themes of loneliness, absurdity and alienation, and in the 41 years since his death, serious modern drama has become a realm of metaphysical dread of which he felt the first tormented shudder...
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