Free Pirandello's Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello, Tom Stoppard

New Version copyright © 2004 by Tom Stoppard
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    Stoppard, Tom.
    Pirandello’s Henry IV
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by Luigi Pirandello ; a new version by Tom Stoppard.— 1st ed.
            p. cm.
    eBook ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-9534-0
    1. Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, 1050–1106—Drama.   2. Psychotherapist and patient—Drama. 3. Aristocracy (Social class)—Drama. 4. Italy—Drama. I. Title: Pirandello’s Henry the Fourth. II. Stoppard, Tom. III. Pirandello, Luigi, 1867–1936. Enrico IV. English. V. Title.
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A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
    This version was prepared with the help of a literal translation by Francesca Albini, commissioned by the Donmar Theatre, and with further assistance from Simonetta Wenkert. I take sole responsibility for the departures from Pirandello.

    Tom Stoppard’s new version of
Henry IV
by Luigi Pirandello was commissioned by and first performed at the Donmar Warehouse, London, on April 29, 2004. Michael Grandage, artistic director; Nick Frankfort, executive producer; Tobias Round, general manager. The cast was as follows:
    HENRY IV    Ian McDiarmid
    LANDOLF    James Lance
    HAROLD    Stuart Burt
    ORDULF    Neil McDermott
    BERTOLD    Nitzan Sharron
    GIOVANNI    Brian Poyser
    DI NOLLI    Orlando Wells
    BELCREDI    David Yelland
    DOCTOR    Robert Demeger
    MATILDA    Francesca Annis
    FRIDA    Tania Emery
    It was directed by Michael Grandage; the designer was Christopher Oram; the lighting design was by Neil Austin; the music and sound score was by Adam Cork; and the sound designer was Fergus O’Hare.

Pirandello’s Henry IV

ACT ONE
    The throne room. There are two full-length, life-size modern portraits of a young man and a young woman dressed as Henry IV and Matilda, Countess of Tuscany
. HAROLD, LANDOLF, ORDULF, and BERTOLD—
wearing the costumes of eleventh-century German knights
—
enter
.
    LANDOLF    Next—the throne room!
    HAROLD    The throne