Category
page 1Plays set in Sicily
Much Ado About Nothing
comedy play by William Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale
play by Shakespeare
Cyclops
ancient Greek satyr play by Euripides
Don Juan
comedy play by Moliere (1665)
The Blunderer, or the Counterplots
comedy play by Molière
Tonight We Improvise
play written by Luigi Pirandello
Rustic Chivalry
short story by Giovanni Verga
Liola
Liolà () is an Italian stage play written by Luigi Pirandello in 1916, which takes place in early 20th 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