THE PLAYS

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Marathon

One act. Two characters. Dramatic comedy.


Two friends are training together for the New York Marathon. But it is a strange night, and one of the two does not recognise the route or remember how he got there. He later discovers that he has been involved in a road accident and is in a coma.



Available in English, English-American, Spanish, Portuguese, Croatian, Bulgarian.
The Builders

Two acts. Three characters.
Comedy

Two masons are working overnight to build a wall which will block the stage of an old and unused theatre: the whole area has been sold and the building is going to be used for storage. But in the theatre there are still some strange presences ready to appear and still provoque emotions. So the two men encounter an enigmatic and sexy miss Giulia who will upset them and change their lives.



Available in English, German, French

Margarita and the cock



Three acts. Five characters. Comedy


We are in Florence during the XVIth century. Hannibal, in order to get an important job at Court , promises a Viscount that he will allow him to have a sexual relationship with his wife. But his wife, at the last moment, does not turn up to the arranged meeting. So with a trick he substitutes his wife with the young servant Margarita.
Margarita is the daughter of a witch and immediately suspects what the matter is: therefore thanks to a spell her mother taught her, she transforms herself into Hannibal. The magic proves successful.
Without Hitler

Two acts. Four characters. Dramatic comedy


In another dimension we suppose that Hitler is a painter. In his pictures he paints what in real life he has done: war and concentration camps – At the age of sixty, after a life full of artistic failures, he is interviewed by a young journalist: Anne Frank.

Available in English
Dejavu

Three acts. Two character. Dramatric
Two lovers, a youg man and a older woman in the garden of a conutry villa. They fall asleep and awake at night to a strange drama: has the area been contaminated by a nuclear accident? What's the real nature of their relationship? Was what they experienced true or is it just a nightmare? If it proves to be a nightmare, the reality is even worse...



Available in English, German.
The Family Vice

Two acts. Five characters. Comedy.


Disillusioned by her past sentimental failures, a woman decides to hire a family to spend her holidays with. She goes to an agency, where a skilful salesman succeeds in renting her a horrible family. After a day at home with the family, the poor woman calls the agent to cancel the contract. But she finds that she cannot, for in her enthusiasm to conclude the agreement, the woman signed for ten years.



Available in English, Spanish.
Porco selvatico

Two acts. Four characters. Dramatic comedy.
A man enters a bar and notices that a man is hanging where there used to be a chandelier. Moved by good intentions, the man expresses his desire to free the poor fellow, but the bartender and his woman - who are either the villains or the victims of the situation - confuse the man to the point where, at the end of the play, he becomes the executioner.



Available in English.
Salesmen

 Two acts. Six characters. Dramatic comedy.
A salesman is let go as a result of a bit of dirty office politics by his manager, who is carrying out a restructuring of the company. The manager in turn is let go by the managing director, for even though he faithfully carried out his orders, he let too many people go and is now very unpopular with the sales force. During a night of chemical-induced delirium, when dreams take on the solidity of reality, a hitch-hiker rises up to defend all consumers and he fires the managing director on the spot.



Available in Hungarian.
Radical Obstruction

Monologue. Comedy.
The last twenty minutes of a 48-hour marathon speech by a member of parliament. Exhausted, the man no longer remembers what law he is opposing and begins to rave, mixing political ideas, his bodily needs, and bits of autobiography.

Available in English.
The night of Picasso

One act. Two characters. Dramatic comedy.
Two mental hospital patients meet in the hallway every night to write a film. Their work, however, has been at a standstill for years, blocked over a minor detail in a secondary scene. During a night of creative fury, and after having founded the new art of the next millennium, one of the two realises that he is the Messiah.



Available in English.
The Italian drama

Three acts. Ten characters. Drama.
Rjieka, Yugoslavia. 1948. In a house in which many families are forced to live together, Polan – the new entry – meets Elsa, an ex-actress who has become dumb through an ictus. While the other Italian people are in doubt whether to remain in Yugoslavia (where they will speak Croatian) or emigrate to Italy, Polan tries to teach Italian to the dumb actress.
The North Wall



One act. Three characters. Dramatic Comedy
A boaster man of fifty takes his short-sighted and shy boy of ten with him to climb the tough wall of a mountain. The child loses his glasses and must depend for everything on his father, who is in big trouble for having lost the way. Gradually his son understands that both in the mountians and in life, he must cope by himself.
Smallpox

One act. Two characters. Comedy
An archeologist and a famous teacher meet underground in the future, on a well preserved stage, the last discovery of a civility that has no recollection of what Theatre is anymore. The logic inductions of the teacher enlighten the matter: the Theatre had been like a hospital in which the ancient disease, smallpox, was treated.
Animals in the fog

13 scenes. Six characters. Drama


On a foggy day two facts are happening simultaneously: a hunt-beating and a “mystery” performance.
The hunt is troubled by a boy who, through the sound of a drum, makes the animals escape; in the meantime the preparation for the performance is complicated by an improvised scenographer who decides quite personally to hang three men , on three crosses that were supposed to be empty.
The night falls and the thick fog produces a sort of separation which cannot be trespassed. 
So the scenographer is spending a night full of anguish in the company of a hunter and his wife, while-on the other side-the performance is deferred, but since nobody knows about the three men hanging, nobody can help them. And what should have been a performance becomes real , through terrible suffering.
Human Tissue

One act. Three characters. Dramatic comedy.
During an autopsy, the dead man gets up and starts a conversation with the coroner and his typist. He has no idea who he was when alive, and asks the others for information and explanations.
Blind Curve

Four acts. Seven characters. Drama.
The dramatic story of love and drugs of Achille Varzi, the Formula One driver and historic rival of Tazio Nuvolari.
Good News

Two acts. Two characters. Dramatic comedy.


Two women go door-to-door predicting that the end of the world is at hand. Mixing biblical quotations, paradoxical statements, and common cliche', they tell their truth to a Guest who we never see, yet who disturbs us. Months, perhaps years later, the two sisters go back to the same place, but the situation has drastically changed. Something irreparable has happened in the world, and we find that the Guest is probably not human.
The Man of My Life

Four scenes. Three characters. Comedy.
A boy describes the night that she was conceived, which was also the night when her parents met for the first time. If the boy was not there to provide the proof, no one would ever bet on the positive outcome of a meeting between such different people.