Right you are (if you think so)

Synopsis In Right You Are, seven respectable, middle-class types in a comfortable, bourgeois home argue over their perceptions of a mysterious woman, the Signor Ponza’s wife, seen at the window of a nearby building. No one has ever seen Signor Ponza’s wife and her mother, Signora Frola, together. Councillor Agazzi, Ponza’s employer, investigates Ponza’s private life. Ponza claims that his wife is really his second wife, the first having died in an earthquake that destroyed all verifying documents. Too, his wife only pretends to be Signora Frola’s daughter to humour Signora Frola, who, he claims, is insane. Thoroughly bewildered, Agazzi demands to meet Ponza’s wife, who arrives, heavily veiled, proclaiming herself as both the daughter of Signora Frola and the second wife of Ponza. The “truth” of the matter remains a mystery. This work, like almost all of Pirandello’s plays, contrasts art and life, demonstrating that truth is subjective and relative.