So it is (if you like) is a play by Luigi Pirandello, based on the novella Mrs. Frola and Mr. Ponza, her son-in-law. It was performed for the first time on 18 June 1917, although the author had communicated the conclusion to his son Stefano two months earlier. Pirandello presented a new enriched edition in 1925 , adapting it to the theatrical representation and modifying it almost completely Il giuoco delle parti : a play by Pirandello which revisits...

To clothe the naked: A suicide attempt by a young woman fails, but her misfortune earns the sympathy of the press, and she attracts a writer in search of a topic for a novel. No sooner can Ersilia cash in on her unexpected fame that she is trapped by her own lies. The more the writing process goes on, the more her confusion mounts; she is afraid of losing herself and becoming a nobody amidst the journalistic and writerly fictions inspired by her persona. The...

Now for the first time five great plays by one of the most celebrated and fascinating dramatists of the 20th century are made available. Pirandello, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1934, was the playwright par excellence of the conflict between illusion and reality. His modern and sensationally original plays dramatize with force and eloquence the isolation of the individual from society and from himself. -- From publisher's description.

Wily peasants, feisty pessimists, frustrated rural sophists, and the entire masquerade of a sadly comic humanity-without-props make up this delightful and valuable collection of all 13 one-act plays by the Italian master.

The mountain giants : a long-awaited theatrical and literary event; this posthumously published and unfinished play has been provided with the missing final scene by Charles Wood. The action takes place in the fantastic Villa Scalogna, inhabited by a grotesque group of people led by Cotrone, a wizard and illusionist. Into this scene comes a band of actors, about to perform one of Pirandello's own plays. The Mountain Giants was first produced at the...

Luigi Pirandello's modern classic, starring Andy Griffith in a brilliant departure from his television persona as a country sheriff, along with Academy Award winner John Houseman (The Paper Chase), is directed by Stacy Keach, who has transposed the play's traditional theatrical setting to a television studio. As a group of actors prepare for a rehearsal of a TV adaptation of another Pirandello play - The Rules of the Game - the television monitors...