Grice e Pirandello

 The first production of Henry IV was staged at the Teatro Manzoni, Milan, on 24 February 1922. It was performed by Ruggero Ruggeri's Company, with Ruggeri playing the title role. The play was revived at the Teatro Argentina, Rome, on the 11 June 1925 by Luigi Pirandello's Company. This was followed by a European tour where the play received its first professional British staging at the New Oxford Theatre in late June 1925 - albeit in Italian - again, with Ruggeri playing the title role. (There had been an amateur production of the play at the Amateur Dramatic Club, Cambridge, 7 June 1924, translated by Edward Storer): Madness, whether treated poetically as by Shakespeare, or ironically, as by Pirandello, is always a moving spectacle. It becomes terrible at the hands of Ruggero Ruggeri. The Times, 19 June 1925