| Tonight We Improvise | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Luigi Pirandello |
| Characters | Doctor Hinkfuss Lead Actress/Mommina Lead Actor/Rico Verri Character Actress/Signora Ignazia Old Comic Actor/Signor Palmiro |
| Date premiered | January 25, 1930 |
| Place premiered | Königsberg |
| Original language | Italian |
| Series | Six Characters in Search of an Author, Each In His Own Way |
| Genre | Tragicomedy |
| Setting | A theatre Contemporary Sicily |
Tonight We Improvise (Italian: Questa sera si recita a soggetto [ˈkwesta ˈseːra si ˈrɛːtʃita a ssodˈdʒɛtto]) is a play by Luigi Pirandello.[1] Like his plays Six Characters in Search of an Author and Each In His Own Way, it forms part of his "trilogy of the theatre in the theatre." It premiered in 1930 in a German translation in Königsberg, and had its first Italian performance in Turin on April 14, 1930.
It has been translated into English by Samuel Putnam (1932), Marta Abba (1959), and J. Douglas Campbell and Leonard Sbrocchi (1987).