Volume 22, Number 2 · February 20, 1975

On Pirandello's 'Clothing the Naked'

By Nicola Chiaromonte, Translated by Mary McCarthy, Ronald Strom

'Let this be like a tribunal!' the Chief Actor shouts at the Director in Tonight We Improvise. He wants genuine improvisation, not the false article the Director seeks to impose on the troupe in rehearsal, and he appeals to the freedom of the theatre to back him up in his mutinous demand.



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