Pirandello's play is brilliant, but this script, and story, bears only a passing resemblance.
Lena is NOT a servant, she is the woman's aunt, who brought her up. The woman does NOT hang around in the play, she leaves them all with the mad woman, who, in my opinion, DOES turn out to be the long-lost Maria.
Why change the names? They were perfectly suitable for the screen.
This was a case of scriptwriting for its own sake, not a screen adaptation.
Performances were typical of all really, but the faithless destruction of the original material lets this down terribly.
Lena is NOT a servant, she is the woman's aunt, who brought her up. The woman does NOT hang around in the play, she leaves them all with the mad woman, who, in my opinion, DOES turn out to be the long-lost Maria.
Why change the names? They were perfectly suitable for the screen.
This was a case of scriptwriting for its own sake, not a screen adaptation.
Performances were typical of all really, but the faithless destruction of the original material lets this down terribly.