A dialogue by Luigi Pirandello

The Man With the Flower in his Mouth is one of the few Pirandello plays that are well known in the English theatre. It has been broadcast, and twice televised on the old thirty-line system. One of the television broadcasts was with puppets, produced by Jan Bussell. The play ends on a grim note, and the philosophy contained in it is characteristic of the author. He was born in Sicily in 1867. At the age of nineteen he went to Rome, and a few years later he travelled to Germany to graduate in philosophy at the University of Bonn. In 1925 he founded an Arts Theatre in Rome for the performance of new Italian and foreign plays, and in the same year he brought the company of this theatre to London for the production of some of his own plays. He died in December, 1936.