Liolà
By: Luigi Pirandello ; in a new version by Tanya Ronder
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
ISBN-13: 9781848423435
Subjects: Adaptations; Almond industry; Drama; Landowners; Inheritance and succession; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); History
Description: This high-spirited drama by Pirandello defies expectations. It is not the intellectual whirlwind of his Six Characters in Search of an Author but takes us instead to the heart of a rural community where property and kinship provoke fierce passions. Liola, a young man untroubled by tradition, takes the part of nature all the way. Of course it's wrong to force a well-guarded gate, but a boy who follows an open path, well... Written in Sicilian dialect, Liola is rarely played in the English language. Tanya Ronder's new version is performed by an Irish cast and gypsy musicians. It's unexpected, funny and touching. You can't have a full barrel and a drunk wife... you just can't cut it both ways.
Notes: "A Nick Hern book"--Title page verso.