Absolutely Perhaps
by Luigi Pirandello

Name: Absolutely Perhaps
Brand: Luigi Pirandello
SKU: 9780413773661
Rating: 4.02 (1033 reviews)

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Highlights

Medium Cast

Female

Male

Italian Comedy

What readers are saying

Readers generally find the play insightful and engaging, appreciating its exploration of truth, reality, and the complexity of human relationships. Many highlight its clever humor and philosophical depth, indicating that it provokes thoughtful reflection on subjective perspectives. While the majority of feedback is positive, some readers note moments of sluggishness in pacing and find certain parts anticlimactic.

Clever exploration of truth Engaging and thought-provoking Humorous and insightful Pacing feels sluggish at times Some parts are anticlimactic

Synopsis

A brand new adaptation of Pirandello's first play.

No one has ever seen Signor Ponza's wife and her mother, Signora Frola together.

Also, the neighbours have become suspicious because Signora Ponza never leaves her home and start asking questions.

Ponza claims that this wife is really his second wife, the first having died in an earthquake that destroyed all records.

Meanwhile his wife only pretends to be Signora Frola's daughter to humour Signora Frola, who, he claims, is insane.

Thoroughly bewildered, Agazzi demands to meet Ponza's wife, who arrives heavily veiled proclaiming herself as both the daughter of Signora Frola and the second wife of Signor Ponza.

Absolutely!

{Perhaps} is brilliant comedy on the elusive nature of identity and reality and, like all of Pirandello's work, shows truth as subjective and relative and drama itself a mystery.Absolutely!

{Perhaps} is published to coincide with the production at London's Wyndham's theatre starring Joan Plowright and directed by Franco Zeffirelli.