Friday, September 25, 2009

Observing rules ...

... Camilleri and Pirandello.

Pirandello's The Rules of the Game is a wongerful play.

4 comments:

  1. I prefer Pirandello's _Six Characters in Search of an Author_.

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  2. I like that, too, and my all-time favorite is Henry IV. But I do love it when the husband, having set his ex-wife's lover up, says, "I told you, Guido, I do know the rules of the game."

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  3. I remember seeing a production of Henry IV with Rex Harrison in L.A. many, many years ago (1973?). Unfortunately, I had been sleep deprived for several days before the performance, and--shame, shame, shame--I fell asleep and missed much of the performance. There is perhaps an irony there that Pirandello might have appreciated (though I suspect Harrison would not have been amused).

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  4. Harrison, who thought extremely well of himself, would definitely not have been amused.

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