num_pages: 80
description: A brand new adaptation of Pirandello's first play.No one has ever seen Signor Ponza's wife and her mother, Signora Frola together. Also, the neighbours have become suspicious because Signora Ponza never leaves her home and start asking questions. Ponza claims that this wife is really his second wife, the first having died in an earthquake that destroyed all records. Meanwhile his wife only pretends to be Signora Frola's daughter to humour Signora Frola, who, he claims, is insane. Thoroughly bewildered, Agazzi demands to meet Ponza's wife, who arrives heavily veiled proclaiming herself as both the daughter of Signora Frola and the second wife of Signor Ponza. Absolutely! {Perhaps} is brilliant comedy on the elusive nature of identity and reality and, like all of Pirandello's work, shows truth as subjective and relative and drama itself a mystery.Absolutely! {Perhaps} is published to coincide with the production at London's Wyndham's theatre starring Joan Plowright and directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
language: English
title: Absolutely Perhaps
titlecomplete: Absolutely Perhaps (Modern Plays)
characters: Un cameriere di casa Agazzi, La Signora Amalia, sua moglie e sorella di Lamberto Laudisi, Altri Signori e Signore, La Signora Sirelli, La Signora Frola, Il Consigliere Agazzi, Il Signor Sirelli, Lamberto Laudisi, Il Commissario Centuri, La Signora Ponza, La Signora Nenni, Il Signor Prefetto, Dina, loro figlia, Il Signor Ponza, suo genero, La Signora Cini
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Classics, Drama, Nobel Prize, Italy, Italian Literature, Literature, School
ratings_count: 984
publisher: Methuen Drama