Intellectual Plays
The Supply for London A PIRANDELLO STUDY Numerous play-producing societies and theatres are springing up to supply the demand for intellectual plays which West End managers of London theatres cannot satisfy. One of these little theatres is known as “The Garden.” Here, Pirandello’s “The Vice” was given recently. It is a study in the psychology of terror. It has only three characters of importance—a husband, a wife, and a lover. The question is whether the husband suspects. The lover thinks that he does, and he is afraid; so does the wife, whose fear is that the discovery of her infidelity will mean the loss of her children. The first vague fear becomes a probability, but only when the curtain is falling is the fact of the husband’s knowledge and carefully-planned revenge a certainty. Only a master of theatrical devices could hold attention by such slender means.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 1 September 1928, Page 24
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148Intellectual Plays Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 1 September 1928, Page 24
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