Liolà

For the film adaptation, see Liolà (film).

Liolà
Written by	Luigi Pirandello
Date premiered	November 4, 1916 (1916-11-04)
Place premiered	Teatro Argentina, Rome
Original language	Sicilian
Genre	comedy

Liolà (Italian pronunciation: [ljoˈla]) 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. He has three young boys, each by 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. He then has an encounter with Mita, a former lover, who tells him that he is 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 multi-racial Internationalist Theatre performance at London`s Bloomsbury Theatre

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

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