The third of Pirandello's tragedies was written and staged in 1923 at the Teatro Quirino in Rome, with little success. Conceived for Eleonora Duse, who never performed it, the tragedy tells the story of Donn'Anna Luna, a mother who resists the heartbreak of her son's death by relying on the aesthetic and life-giving power of memory. Her meeting with Lucia, the woman her son loved, will reawaken her to the reality of death and to authentic (and healthy) pain, rooted in the flesh of human beings.
