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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...

This is a comedy play focused on an affair between Mary Rhodes and Clive Root, a book seller who is friends with Mary's husband, Victor.

Orpheus descending: The play is a modern retelling of the ancient Greek Orpheus legend and deals, in the most elemental fashion, with the power of passion, art, and imagination to redeem and revitalize life, giving it new meaning. The story is set in a dry goods store in a small southern town marked, in the play, by conformity, sexual frustration, narrowness, and racism. Into this scene steps Val, a young man with a guitar, a snakeskin jacket, a questionable...

A lawyer has a love affair with a woman and gets involved in a plot to kill her husband.

Presents the story of a young, beautiful and married middle-class woman in the late 19th century in New Orleans who is disenchanted from her monotonous existence and strives to pursue self-discovery, spiritual fulfilment and personal growth.

The provocative and funny look at exploitation and corruption, journalistic ethics, freedom of the press and marital infidelity is set in a fictional copper rich African nation. Dick Wagner of The Sunday Globe and a competing freelance journalist arrive at the jungle home of a white mine owner. Soon they are competing for the use of their host's telex, the attentions of his wife and a possible interview with the missing president of Kambawe.

The play begins in the present, with the meeting of Emma and Jerry, whose adulterous affair of seven years ended two years earlier. Emma's marriage to Robert, Jerry's best friend, is now breaking up, and she needs someone to talk to. Their reminiscences reveal that Robert knew of their affair all along and, to Jerry's dismay, regarded it with total nonchalance. Thereafter, in a series of contiguous scenes, the play moves backward in time, from the...

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...

Cloaked in a comedy of manners, this scathing critique of corrupt French society is about a weekend hunting party at which amorous escapades abound among the aristocratic guests, which are also mirrored by the activities of the servants downstairs.

Resurgens Theatre Company presents this long-neglected domestic tragedy based on the brutal murder of a prominent London merchant, George Sanders, in 1573. First performed by Shakespeare's company in the late sixteenth century, A Warning for Fair Women mixes allegory, masque, bloodlust, and courtroom drama in a show unlike other Renaissance dramas staged today, as there's no record of any public performance since 1599. Directed by Dr. Brent Griffin,...