''La maschera e il volto'' is a comedy of

grotesque Since at least the 18th century (in French and German as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus ...

genre by

Luigi Chiarelli Luigi Chiarelli (7 July 1880 – 20 December 1947) was an Italian playwright, theatre critic, and writer of short stories who is chiefly known as a founder of the ''teatro grottesco'', or Theatre of the Grotesque, after the subtitle of one of ...

. Written in 1913 and first presented in 1916, it is historically significant for starting the contemporary grotesque theatre.Luigi Chiarelli - La maschera e il volto
su atuttascuola.it It had a great success first in Italy and then internationally, and continues to be represented. Several movies have been adapted from the play.

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''The mask and the face; a satire in three acts''
Italian plays Grotesque 1913 plays {{aesthetics-stub