Pirandello's play was booed off the stage as the work of a madman at its premiere in Rome in 1921. Today, his use of the play as metaphor, the distinction, if any, between the real and the assumed self, the mask and the face, the persona and the person, not to mention the unmentionable - the backstories and revelations - have become familiar theatrical ground. So, too, have his once-daring stage tricks - the curtainless perspective through to the bare back wall, the exits and entrances via the auditorium, the visibly moved props and scenery.

Recent performances of Pinter's Homecoming and Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf have updated us on multiple versions of truth, memory and identity. What would the cumbersomely-named Oxford University Student Company Another Place offer last week? Well, they used David Harrower's adaptation, first staged in 2001, with a marginal variation on the title - and Pirandello wouldn't have objected. He welcomed revitalisation' and updating. Director Yashar Alishenas and his lively young troupe joined in with spirit.

They opened with a (very) long mute episode with disobedient silhouetted characters who wouldn't behave as their author wanted, then a rehearsal scene with Actors wittily fleshing out the laconic stage directions; here's a leading man fussing about whitening his teeth, here was an actress practising aerobics, there was a flouncy leading lady. Good, too, was the way sinister black-clad Characters infiltrated their casual 2000s style and insisted on their 1920s story being told, with a great deal of philosophy' about life as illusion, character as mask and posing everywhere.

The cast had lots of miming to do, and did it very well indeed. The convolutions of the plot (incest is avoided, a drowning and a Chekovian suicide happen, motives are scarce) remained both confused and noisy - Pirandello's own instructions were that it should be played very fast, so nothing new there.

This was ideal undergraduate material: inventive, bright, clever, with a rather rushed finish.