The giants from the mountains
Die Giant vom Berge (Italian: I giganti della montagna ) is a 1937 drama by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello. Although he had worked on it for more than eight years, it was his last work, unfinished, as he died in December 1936.
On October 1, 1949, the play had its German premiere in a production by Giorgio Strehler in the Schauspielhaus Zurich . On April 19, 1958, it was shown in the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . In 1967 it was also shown as a guest performance at the Burgtheater in Vienna and in Zurich.
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The unlucky ones, a group of completely different outcasts from society who have found refuge in the villa "Misfortune" with the fatherly-looking Cotrone, meet a group of actors when they seek help in the villa because of an illness of their director, Countess Ilse . Ilse is obsessed with the “fairy tale of the swapped son” and travels through the country with the last remnants of her ensemble to bring it closer to the people.
When the two groups collide, the confusion is great at first, as the actors go to the villa to perform the fairy tale. However, they do not believe that the play can be brought to life with the help of the magician Cotrone due to the lack of actors and props. However, with fantasy, the piece can live out of itself, says Cotrone and invites her to stay forever. Little by little the unlucky ones also get involved with the idea of having a new member in the villa, although they initially considered the actors to be a threat, but when they realize that the troupe is harmless, they take them into their wondrous home .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ German Pirandello Center : List of the productions of Pirandello's works ( Memento of September 2, 2004 in the Internet Archive ).