[ noun ] Italian novelist and playwright (1867-1936) <noun.person>
Pirandello's conception involves six fictional characters abandoned by their author before he had attached them permanently to a play or a novel.
Giorgio Strehler's theatre productions outside Italy have become few and far between - one reason why his new staging of Pirandello's 'The Mountain Giants' for the Burgtheater has been so keenly anticipated.
Sacha Pitoeff, an actor and director best known for his stage productions of Chekhov and Pirandello, has died of a heart ailment, associates said today.
Only Pirandello can put the whole lot together. Jonathan Kent's direction of this new, but not significantly different, version of the play by David Hare, adds an English gloss by setting the first act in Pinterland.
Salzburg Festival's theatre programme continues to gather strength: Luca Ronconi's staging of Pirandello's 'The Mountain Giants' opens the festival tonight, while Peter Stein directs Shakespeare's 'Antony and Cleopatra'.
In the past year or two the New End has had one of the best track records of any fringe theatre in London, including revivals of Pirandello and JR Ackerley's The Prisoners of War.