Chiarelli, Luigi

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Chiarelli, Luigi (1884–1947), Italian dramatist, the chief exponent of the Teatro Grottesco, which took its name from Chiarelli's own description of his best-known play The Mask and the Face (1916, written in 1913) as ‘grottesco in tre atti’. This study of man in modern society, where hypocrisy is rampant and all true feeling must be hidden under an expressionless mask, was seen in London and New York in 1924. In 1931 a play on a similar theme, Fireworks (1923), was produced in London as Money, Money! Chiarelli's other plays include The Death of the Lovers (1921), K.41 (1929), a commercial melodrama, and The Little Queen (1931). One Plus Two (1935), a sophisticated light comedy, has great pace and unexpected depth, while The Magic Circle (1937) is a whimsical trifle. To Be was produced posthumously in 1953.

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