Naked
Pirandello, Luigi / Nichols, Nina Da Vinci
Typically provocative, at once comic and tragic, Pirandello's "Naked" (Vestire gli ignudi) uncovers the machinery of guilt, deceit, and betrayal underlying the motives of five people. The heroine is a young governess who has been reduced to despair by a series of misfortunes. Dismissed from service when the baby in her care fell from a terrace to its death, abandoned by her prospective husband and penniless, she turns to prostitution but fails...