SOURCE: "Pirandello at Cambridge," in The Nation and the Athenaeum, Vol. XXXV, No. 12, 21 June 1924, pp. 379-80.

Below, Birrell provides a favorable review of the Cambridge stage production of Henry IV, describing the play as "cerebral" and the representation as "exciting and consistent."

Pirandello is, to my mind, easily the most important playwright who has appeared in Europe since Chekhov, and it is lamentable that a combination of circumstances have hidden him from English playgoers. The Censor, in a moment of egregious folly, stopped Six Characters in Search of an Author (magnificently produced for the Stage Society by Komisarjevski), and a recent translation of Three Plays by Pirandello, unsatisfactory as it is, got less attention than it deserved.

Our thanks are therefore once more due to Cambridge for its courage in performing the author's masterpiece Henry IV., and producer and actors are to be congratulated on the great measure...