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A madman with a gift for impersonation talks his way into a Milan police headquarters and, posing as a judge, reopens the case of an anarchist who fell from a fourth-floor window during questioning.
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Six Characters in Search of an Author
A play: a theatre company rehearsing a Pirandello comedy is interrupted by six strangers, a family of characters abandoned by their author, who demand that their unfinished drama be staged.
Henry IV
A play: twenty years after a fall from his horse at a costume pageant, a wealthy Italian still believes he is the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, and his old circle arrives with a doctor to try to cure him.
The Bonds of Interest
A play in the commedia dell'arte style: two penniless adventurers, the clever Crispín and his master Leandro, arrive in a rich city and talk their way into credit, society and a fortune.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Jack calls himself Ernest in town and Algernon visits an invented invalid friend called Bunbury in the country, and their courtship of Gwendolen and Cecily, who both insist on marrying a man named Ernest, collapses into comic confusion.
Pygmalion
A play: Professor Henry Higgins, an expert in phonetics, bets his friend Colonel Pickering that he can pass Eliza Doolittle, a Covent Garden flower girl, off as a duchess within months.
Man and Superman
A play: John Tanner, a radical writer who fears marriage above all things, is made guardian of Ann Whitefield, who has quietly decided to marry him.
The Cocktail Party
A verse play: at a cocktail party Edward Chamberlayne is trying to explain why his wife has left him, and an uninvited guest who will not give his name begins to rearrange several lives.
Mario and the Magician
On holiday at an Italian seaside resort in the late 1920s, a German family goes to the show of Cipolla, a hunchbacked hypnotist who bends his audience to his will.
The Lion and the Jewel
In the Yoruba village of Ilujinle, the schoolteacher Lakunle and Baroka, the old chief, both want to marry Sidi, the village beauty, whose photograph has just appeared in a magazine.
Creation Lake
An American spy infiltrates an eco-commune in rural France, and her mission unravels as she's drawn into the group's ancient, unsettling philosophy.
Catch-22
Yossarian, a World War II bombardier, wants to stop flying missions, but the only way out is to be declared crazy, and asking to be grounded proves he is sane.
No Exit and Three Other Plays
Four plays, among them No Exit, in which three dead strangers are shown into a windowless drawing room in hell, and Dirty Hands, about a young communist ordered to kill a party leader.