Methuen Drama, 1998

Modern Plays

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (13), Female (5), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Filumena is de Filippo’s best-known work and arguably his finest comedy-drama, drenched in Neapolitan atmosphere and full of entanglements at once cynical and romantic. In the heat of late-1940s Naples, Filumena Maraturano...">

...Filumena is de Filippo’s best-known work and arguably his finest comedy-drama, drenched in Neapolitan atmosphere and full of entanglements at once cynical and romantic. In the heat of late-1940s Naples, Filumena Maraturano...

Methuen Drama, 1992

World Classics

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (13), Female (5), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Filumena is De Filippo’s best-known work and arguably his finest comedy-drama, drenched in Neapolitan atmosphere and full of entanglements at once cynical and romantic. In the heat of late-1940s Naples, Filumena Maraturano...">

...Filumena is De Filippo’s best-known work and arguably his finest comedy-drama, drenched in Neapolitan atmosphere and full of entanglements at once cynical and romantic. In the heat of late-1940s Naples, Filumena Maraturano...

Methuen Drama, 1992

World Classics

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (21), Female (9), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...Unhappy wife Marta needs to take a drastic step if she wants to escape her jealous husband. To that end, she and her lover recruit the help of a seedy magician, who chooses Marta as his volunteer for the ‘disappearing person’ trick in his...">

...Unhappy wife Marta needs to take a drastic step if she wants to escape her jealous husband. To that end, she and her lover recruit the help of a seedy magician, who chooses Marta as his volunteer for the ‘disappearing person’ trick in his...

Methuen Drama, 1992

World Classics

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (22), Female (7), Male (15), Unassigned (0)

...Desperate to survive during the Second World War, Matriarch Amalia directs her family’s activities in the Italian black market, despite the disapproval of her husband, Gennaro. When Gennaro returns from his time...">

...Desperate to survive during the Second World War, Matriarch Amalia directs her family’s activities in the Italian black market, despite the disapproval of her husband, Gennaro. When Gennaro returns from his time...

Methuen Drama, 1992

World Classics

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (20), Female (8), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...When the court system is corrupt, where can people turn for justice? In a small town in Napoli – the setting for The Local Authority – justice rests in the hands of the local mafia on, Antonio Barracano. But when Antonio...">

...When the court system is corrupt, where can people turn for justice? In a small town in Napoli – the setting for The Local Authority – justice rests in the hands of the local mafia on, Antonio Barracano. But when Antonio...

Methuen Drama, 2011

Modern Plays

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (20), Female (5), Male (15), Unassigned (0)

...The Syndicate is a dark comedy of pathos and farce by one of Italy's pre-eminent dramatists of the twentieth century, Eduardo de Filippo. Smuggled out of Naples in his youth after stabbing a brutal nightwatchman to death...">

...The Syndicate is a dark comedy of pathos and farce by one of Italy's pre-eminent dramatists of the twentieth century, Eduardo de Filippo. Smuggled out of Naples in his youth after stabbing a brutal nightwatchman to death...