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Luigi Pirandello

September 2020

  • ‘She really shook the air as she spoke’ … Barbara Jefford with Ralph Fiennes in Coriolanus in 2000.

    'An amazing force': Ralph Fiennes on Barbara Jefford's power and passion

    In plays by Pirandello and Shakespeare, Jefford – who has died aged 90 – displayed incredible precision, says her co-star

April 2018

  • The late Vittorio Taviani (right), with brother Paolo, seen here celebrating their Berlin Golden Bear victory in 2012.

    Film blog
    Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, the radical brothers who electrified Italian cinema

    From Palme d’Or-winner Padre Padrone to adaptations of Tolstoy and Pirandello, the Tavianis challenged convention and upended cliche

September 2015

  • Benedict Cumberbatch in Hamlet, Joanna Lumley in The Cherry Orchard and Mark Rylance in Jerusalem

    From Oedipus to The History Boys: Michael Billington's 101 greatest plays

    In his new book, the Guardian’s theatre critic has selected what he thinks are the 101 greatest plays ever written, in any language – so do you agree?

March 2015

  • Juliette Binoche in in-i at the National Theatre in 2008.

    From Naked to Antigone: Juliette Binoche on stage – in pictures

    Antigone at the Barbican, with Juliette Binoche in the lead role and directed by Ivo van Hove, is one of this year’s hottest tickets. Revisit the French star’s acclaimed career in the theatre

February 2015

  • Six Characters in Search of an Author

    Six Characters in Search of an Author review – a witty and withering theatrical satire

    This striking French production of Pirandello’s play how a classic can be reimagined without being subverted

August 2013

  • liola rory keenan carla langley

    Liolà – review

    Richard Eyre's staging of the lusty Pirandello village comedy is nuanced, yet its Irish accent is ultimately discomfiting, writes Michael Billington

October 2009

  • Six Characters in Search of an Author at Bristol Old Vic

    Six Characters in Search of An Author

    Bristol Old Vic
    Despite Rupert Goold's signature razzle-dazzle, this show is more impressive than enjoyable, writes Lyn Gardner

October 2008

  • Six Characters in Search of an Author, Gielgud, London

    Theatre blog
    OK, so navel-gazing theatre isn't all bad

    Chris Wilkinson: I used to find self-referential theatre irritating - but then I saw Rupert Goold's Six Characters

July 2008

  • The urban glory of Camden's rhythm 'n' Babel

  • Six Characters in Search of an Author

February 2008

  • Six Characters in Search of an Author

    Mark Fisher enjoys a funny and sure-footed staging of Pirandello

February 2006

  • Sensational extremes

    Alfred Hickling, Elena Seymenliyska and Laura Wilson on The People's Act of Love | Shoot | The Icarus Girl | Labyrinth | Sugarmilk Falls

October 2005

  • Torch songs and torturers

    Theatre: Kristin Scott Thomas transcends Pirandello's inherent daftness, but Sam Shepard's strong-arm tactics fail to persuade Susannah Clapp.

May 2004

  • That's the story of my life...

    Theatre: Susannah Clapp on Lifegame | Henry IV | Les Parents Terribles

May 2003

  • Funny peculiar

    Pirandello lived in a twilight world of duplicity, confused identities and madness. And he put all of it into his plays, says Franco Zeffirelli.

February 2003

  • Luciano Chailly

    Italian composer who set Pirandello, Ionesco and Chekhov to music.

December 2002

  • To the lighthouse

    Isobel Montgomery and Jemima Hunt on Pharos | Loveless Love | Bread and Chocolate | Spider | The Summons | The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

February 2001

  • A prankish Pirandello

    Six Characters...
    Young Vic
    London
    Rating: ***

March 1999

  • Heirs of Pirandello

    New British drama is the rage of Europe. Two weeks ago a discussion on British theatre packed out the old postwar Piccolo Teatro in Milan. Since then Katie Mitchell's revelatory production of Martin Crimp's Attempts On Her Life has played to large, enthusiastic audiences in the new Piccolo's spacious Studio. On the way out of a performance I was accosted by a student desperate to know more about the new wave of British dramatists: a reminder that our plays, as much as our films, fashion or even football, presently define the image of Britain abroad.
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