March 05 to February 27, 2012
07:00 pm

Pirandello One Act Festival

The Players
16 Gramercy Park South
10003 New York, NY
United States

Festival of Pirandello one acts
The Players, the Pirandello Society of America and Jane House Productions present all the one-act plays of Luigi Pirandello. The festival will take place at The Players, a Greek Revival townhouse which was the home of the great American Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth. Booth and fifteen others, including Mark Twain, founded the club for “the promotion of social intercourse between memebers of the dramatic profession and kindred professions of literature, painting, architecture, sculpture and music, law and medicine,and the patron of the arts”.

Programme:

Tuesday, March 6

Perché?
Sicilian Limes – Lumie di Sicilia
The Doctor’s Duty – Dovere del Medico
The Other Son – L’altro figlio

Tuesday, March 13

The Vise – La morsa
Chee-Chee - Cecè
The man with the Flower in his Mouth – L’uomo dal fiore in bocca

Tuesday, March 20

The Jar – La Giara
The License – La patente
At the Exit – All’uscita
The Imbecile – L’imbecille

Tuesday, March 27

The Festival of our Lord of the Ships – Sagra del Signore della Nave
Bellavita
I’m Dreaming, But Am I? – Sogno, ma forse no