Tonight We Improvise

work by Pirandello

Also known as: “Questa sera si recita a soggetto”

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"Tonight We Improvise" (Questa sera si recita a soggetto), a 1930 play by Luigi Pirandello, is a key work in his exploration of the relationship between reality and fiction. It utilizes a "play within a play" structure, similar to his more famous work, Six Characters in Search of an Author. Pirandello's dramas often feature logical arguments to explore themes of illusion, the fragmentation of personality, and the uncertain boundaries between sanity and insanity, and reality and appearance. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for his contributions to drama and literature.123

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Italian literature
Luigi Pirandello
…si recita a soggetto (1930; Tonight We Improvise). This was a way of transferring the dissociation of reality from the plane of content to that of form, thereby achieving an almost perfect unity between ideas and dramatic structure. Pirandello’s plays, including perhaps his best, Enrico IV (1922; Henry IV), often…
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…si recita a soggetto (1930; Tonight We Improvise). This was a way of transferring the dissociation of reality from the plane of content to that of form, thereby achieving an almost perfect unity between ideas and dramatic structure. Pirandello’s plays, including perhaps his best, Enrico IV (1922; Henry IV), often…
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