Liolà

Liolà (Italian pronunciation: [ljoˈla]) is an Italian stage play written by Luigi Pirandello in 1916, which takes place in 19th century Sicily. The original text was composed in the Sicilian dialect of Agrigento. The title character is a middle-aged single father by choice. He has three young boys, each by a different mother. Liolà is a free-spirit who wanders from town to town, looking to connect with nature, and to create children without having any ties to the mother. He tries to sell one of his boys to Zio Simone, a crabby elderly man, who becomes offended by the offer. He then has an encounter with Mita, a former lover, who tells him that he is the father of her unborn child. Pirandello immortalizes Liolà as an ideal father, and in certain scenes in the play, Liolà shows a lot of love and affection to his children.

For the film adaptation, see Liolà (film).
Liolà
Written byLuigi Pirandello
Date premieredNovember 4, 1916 (1916-11-04)
Place premieredTeatro Argentina, Rome
Original languageSicilian
Genrecomedy

Film adaptations

Theatrical adaptation
  • In August 2013 The National Theatre staged Liola adapted by Tanya Ronder."This touching and entertaining production glows with the warmth of summer...The director, Richard Eyre, has cast the play with Irish actors, to evoke the rural nature of the piece", said Charles Spencer of The Telegraph.[1] "Particular mention must go to the central sparring partners Mita and Tuzza (Lisa Dwyer Hogg and Jessica Regan) and Aisling O'Sullivan as the latter's long suffering mother. In this world, you're either a wife or a mother – or nothing, as one character puts it. "That's all there is." Only for Liola (an assured turn by Rory Keenan) the freedom to be "pure nature"". [2]

References
  1. Charles Spencer (August 2013). "Liola by Pirandello". The Telegraph – via telegraph.co.uk.
  2. Nancy Goves (August 2013). "Liola by Pirandello". WhatsonStage – via whatsonstage.com.
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