Bringing Theater into Life: Pirandello’s 'Tonight We Improvise,' From Short Story to Theatrical Vision
Time: Oct. 19, 2017, 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: 311A Huntington Beard Crouse
Pietro Frassica (Princeton)
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Luigi Pirandello’s birth, Professor Frassica, a leader in Pirandello studies in North America and Europe, investigates the playwright’s strategies in Tonight We Improvise which challenge the thresholds between art and life -- questions still relevant today since the work's 1930 opening in Königsberg, Germany. Tonight We Improvise will appeal to those interested in Modernism, Expressionism, European studies, theater and literature.
Stefano Giannini, Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics