Three plays Author:Luigi Pirandello Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: RIGHT YOU ARE ! (IF YOU THINK SO) (Cost t, se vi pare!) A PARABLE IN THREE ACTS LUIGI PIRANDELLO Translated By Arthur Livingston CHARACTERS IAMB... more »ERTO LAUDISI. SIGNORA FROLA. PONZA, SON-IN-LAW OF SIGNORA FROLA. SIGNORA PONZA, PONZA's WIFE. COMMENDATORE AGAZZI, A PROVINCIAL COUNCILLOR. AMALIA, HIS WIFE. DINA, THEIR DAUGHTER. SIRELLI. SIGNORA SIRELLI, HIS WIFE. THE PREFECT. CENTURI, A POLICE COMMISSIONER. SIGNORA CINI. SIGNORA NENNI. A BUTLER. A NUMBER OF GENTLEMEN AND LADIES. Our Own Times, In A Small Italian Town, The Capital Of A Province. RIGHT YOU ARE! (IF YOU THINK SO) ACT I The parlor In the house of Commendatore Agazzi. A door, the general entrance, at the back; doors leading to the wings, left and right. Laudisi is a man nearing the forties, quick and energetic in his movements. He is smartly dressed, in good taste. At this moment he is wearing a semi-formal street suit: a sack coat, of a violet cast, with black lapels, and with black braid around the edges; trousers of a light but different color' Laudisi has a keen, analytical mind, but is impatient and ir- ritable in argument. Nevertheless, however angry he gets / momentarily, his good humor soon comes to prevail. Then he laughs and lets people have their way, enjoying, mean-t while, the spectacle of the stupidity and gullibility of others. Amalia, Agazzi's wife, is Laudisi s sister. She is a woman of forty-five more or less. Her hair is already quite grey. Signora Agazzi is always showing a certain sense of her own importance from the position occupied by her husband in the community; but she gives you to understand that if she had a free rein she would be quite capable of playing her own part in the world and, perhaps, do it somewhat better than Commendatore Agazzi. Dina is the d...« less