This collection of seven darkly funny and mysterious plays includes
the long one act Pirandello, in which the great Italian playwright,
writing alone on the stage of his theatre late at night, is
interrupted by the Italian dictator Mussolini, who wants him to
write the authorized biographical play of the dictator's life,
Pirandello's jealous wife, who believes Pirandello is sleeping with
every woman in sight, including his daughter, and an increasingly
disturbing group of characters who may or may not be real, leading
Pirandello to question the relationship between his theories about
the malleable nature of reality to the rise of Fascism and Fascist
propaganda; The Recollection Of Green Rain, which tells the mostly
true story of two green children found wandering near an English
village, who spoke an unknown language and insisted they were from
a mysterious green underground kingdom; Pinocchio, in which
Gloria's blind date turns out to be an angry puppet with a rather
unsettling story to tell; Rusalka, in which a police officer
investigating the disappearance of a young girl tries to make sense
out of the increasingly odd stories her best friend tells about
her; Humpty Dumpty, in which an enormous egg with very bad hair
sits on top of a wall and talks about making Wonderland great
again; Brimstone Run, in which a family legacy of betrayal and
tragedy is played out at the town dump; and Nictzin Dyalhis, in
which a legendary, reclusive writer of weird tales is haunted by a
sea goddess he may or may not have invented. In each of these
plays, in one way or another, compelling characters find themselves
lost in a labyrinthine twilight zone of dream variations which
combine the Gothic, the surreal and the absurd. Don Nigro is among
the most frequently published and widely produced playwrights in
the world and has continued to build a deeply interrelated and
diverse body of dramatic literature, employing a wide variety of
dramatic conventions and styles of presentation. He has written
monologues and epics, spare realistic dramas and surreal homicidal
puppet farces, plays with music and verse plays. He continues to
build the long cycle of Pendragon County plays, which traces the
history of America through the lives of several related east Ohio
families from the eighteenth century to the present, and features
many characters whose lives are traced from youth through middle
age to old age in a number of plays that may be presented in a
variety of combinations.
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