The play is based on Pirandello's short story La signora Frola e il signor Ponza, suo genero.
Lamberto Laudisi defends the newly arrived from the curiosity of the village, stating the impossibility of knowing each other and, more generally, absolute truth.
The search for evidence to determine the truth is actually the opportunity to Laudisi to unravel the meaning of this, while arguing with his own reflection in the mirror: Oh dear!
The play is based on Pirandello's short story La signora Frola e il signor Ponza, suo genero.
[citation needed] Così è (se vi pare) premiered on 18 June 1917 in Milan, Italy.
[citation needed] During his speech when presenting the Nobel Prize in Literature to Pirandello in 1934, Per Hallström, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, said that the play is "a brilliant satire on man's curiosity and false wisdom; in it Pirandello presents a catalogue of types and reveals a penetrating self-conceit, either partially or completely ridiculous, in those attempting to discover truth".
[1] In 2003 Franco Zeffirelli commissioned a new translation/adaptation by Martin Sherman entitled Absolutely {Perhaps} and performed at Wyndham's Theatre in London.