Right You Are (If You Think So): Luigi Pirandello’s Relativism of Perception and the Break with Traditional Theatre Form

The presentation will address the philosophical concepts of the relativism of perception inherent in Pirandello’s Right You Are (If You Think So), a creative comedy with a profound message. It will also very briefly show a radical change in the theatre form of the past and the emergence of a theatre genre of doubt, which requires an interpretation of the diverse realities existent in life. The work will be presented in a multi-media format illustrating the work’s dialogue and characters in an effort to clearly present these Pirandellian concepts in an entertaining and engaging way.

November 2
1:30 p.m.

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Marco Remo Zanelli holds a Bachelor of Arts in Television Production from Emerson College and a Master of Arts in Italian Linguistics, Literature and Cinema from Middlebury College. He is both an Italian instructor and translator as well as an actor and director. He has studied acting both in Los Angeles and in Boston. As actor and/or director, he has worked on productions of Twelfth Night, All’s Well That Ends Well, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, The Three Sisters, Amadeus, Sweeney Todd, The Odd Couple, Questi Fantasmi by Eduardo De Filippo (ImproNati) and Isabella Unmasked (Pazzi Lazzi Troupe). He has translated academic, theatrical, historical, journalistic, and television works into English for PBS, documentary filmmaker Marcellino De Baggis, historian Nicola Labanca (University of Siena), Paoletti Softdrinks (Rome), The Ivory Press, and The Forum for the Problems of Peace and War, Walter Valeri (Harlequin and the Scent of Money), among others.