Questa sera si recita a soggetto

Questa sera si recita a soggetto is a play by Luigi Pirandello ()[1]

The original text

Based on a novella called Leonora addio! (1910), it was written between the end of 1928 and the start of 1929. First performed at Königsberg on 25 January, 1930, in a German translation by Harry Kahn with the title Heute Abend wird aus dem Stegreif gespielt. It had its first Italian performance on 14 April 1930 in the Teatro di Torino, directed by Guido Salvini.

Translations and adaptations

According to Wikipedia[2], it has been translated into English as Tonight We Improvise! by Samuel Putnam (1932), Marta Abba (1959), and J. Douglas Campbell and Leonard Sbrocchi (1987).

Translated into Afrikaans as Vanaand Improviseer Ons by an unnamed author.

Another Afrikaans version is a translation of the Primo intermezzo section, named Tussenspel, also by an unnamed author (A set of texts found in archives of the Stellenbosch Drama Department).

Performance history in South Africa

1984: Tussenspel performed by students at the University of Stellenbosch?

Sources

https://www.pirandelloweb.com/questa-sera-si-recita-a-soggetto/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonight_We_Improvise

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Pirandello

Copy of the Afrikaans translation found in the Stellenbosch University drama archives.

Copy of the Afrikaans translation of the Primo Intermezzo, found in the Stellenbosch University drama archives.

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