By RON JENKINS

Strehler's landmark production of Goldoni's "Harlequin," which has toured the world in a variety of incarnations since it was first staged in 1947, will be revived at the company's 966-seat Strehler Theater, in the Piccolo Teatro's main building, from Dec. 18 to 20 (it begins a spring tour of Italy in February). In the 563-seat Grassi Theater, Piccolo Teatro will present the premiere of Mr. Ronconi's new stage adaptation of the Henry James novel "What Maisie Knew" from Dec. 17 to March 3.

Like his highly praised adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita," which closed last month, Mr. Ronconi's staging of "What Maisie Knew" reflects his interest in finding new theatrical vocabularies for texts written in nontheatrical languages. " `Lolita' demanded a very cinematic staging," the director said, "because we began with the screenplay Nabokov wrote for Stanley Kubrick that was never used. With `Maisie,' we are looking at a completely different kind of American idiom. The language is circumspect, never revealing what the characters feel, so the actors have to invent a language of the body that illuminates the emotions being concealed by their words."
 jumped onto the stage to suggest additional actions. He demonstrated these himself, sometimes heaving his chest visibly to indicate restrained emotion, other times falling .
 
 

Ron Jenkins, a professor of theater at Wesleyan University, is the author of ``Artful Laughter: Dario Fo and Franca Rame'' (Aperture Press) and the translator of Mr. Fo's plays ``Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas'' (Grove Atlantic) and ``We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!'' (Theater Communications Group).
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