Liolà

Liolà is an Italian stage play written by Luigi Pirandello, which takes place in 19th century Sicily. The title character is a middle-aged single father by choice, of three young boys, each with a different mother. Liolà is a free-spirit who wanders from town to town, looking to connect with nature, and to create children without having any ties to the mother. He tries to sell one of his boys to Zio Simone, a crabby elderly man, who becomes offended by the offer. Then he has an encounter with Mita, a former lover, who tells him that he's the father of her unborn child. Pirandello immortalizes Liolà as an ideal father, and in certain scenes in the play, Liolà shows a lot of love and affection to his children.

Adaptations

• Liolà di Alessandro Blasetti, 1963
• Liolà di Gabriele Lavia, 2005
• Fabio Perselli and Victoria Glyn adaptation for 1982 Internationalist Theatre performance at London`s Bloomsbury Theatre

v t e Works by Luigi Pirandello Plays Liolà Così è (se vi pare) The Rules of the Game Six Characters in Search of an Author Henry IV The Man With the Flower in His Mouth Each In His Own Way Tonight We Improvise Novels L'Esclusa The Turn The Late Mattia Pascal One, No One and One Hundred Thousand