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- Herausgeber: Rosario
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
Theatre
MARTINO but are you really able to feel what's in that poor creature's stomach. I don't know and I went away, and I promised I'd talk to her only until she really understood what's inside her stomach. Perhaps it is not that sentimental education that you were talking about. But if when my feet are on fire, I have to shut up like a robot, I don't understand how I can educate myself about feelings. Because with imagination I can't. If it doesn't happen with the experience of life and fuck me and who do I hurt, when does it happen? If I don't hurt anyone, why don't I have to cry, laugh, laugh out loud. Because I have to hold back what's born in my guts. If I'm not here, how can people understand who I am, when I suffer, what makes me angry. There's only one sea, we're all in this boat together. I don't understand why we act like we all have our own sea. You talked about sentimental education. I wanted to understand how you do it, without these premises. Aunt Olga had to shout and she didn't. And if she had, what would you say, that she shouldn't have done it. And back to square one. You said it well before. She didn't give you the material. And you gave it to us? We never heard you lecture us. That's the problem. Did you give it to us?
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Rosario Stefanelli
The elsewhere is not a district for miserables
Indice dei contenuti
play in three acts
play in three acts
The elsewhere is not a district for miserables
Of
Rosario Stefanelli
PERSONAGES
RAMONA
BRUNA, daughter of Ramona
MARTINO, son of Ramona
LAURA, wife of Martino
DON VITTORIO
ACT I
Small villa perched on a promontory overlooking the sea. Not far from the lighthouse. The owner is Ramona. The action takes place in the living room, at the back of which is the garden. On stage are Ramona and her daughter Bruna. The latter takes a pair of binoculars and looks out of the window
RAMONA is still there?
BRUNA same position
RAMONA oh God
BRUNA It will take days before she is freed
RAMONA who knows the people on the island?
BRUNA I saw men queuing in front of the armoury
RAMONA to imagine it
BRUNA And many women stocking up
RAMONA That freighter has blocked the port. There is anxiety. Nothing more will arrive on our small island of Ibsenia. The inhabitants seriously fear that the town will come to a standstill. And who knows what else
BRUNA What do you want to say?
RAMONA nothing. But how could this happen?
Bruna puts down the binoculars
BRUNA and you're wondering mum
RAMONA what do you mean?
BRUNA you know what I'm alluding to
RAMONA oh noo. Don't you dare
BRUNA you should accept it
RAMONA and I don't...
BRUNA Luckily there's Angelo. He's good, you know
RAMONA You can't insinuate such a thing
BRUNA I'm not the only one
RAMONA To hell with these islanders. Cursed was my family who came to live there years ago.
BRUNA should have left earlier. In her condition...
RAMONA will you stop it
BRUNA is not doing well. Some people told of seeing Martino running on the beach like a madman. He was screaming like a madman
RAMONA but if he's locked up in the clinic
BRUNA it must have happened before he set foot there
RAMONA that's enough! I don't want to hear you talk about your brother like that any more.
BRUNA I just wanted to tell you about him and how he is.
RAMONA we all know how he is
BRUNA Whatever, mother...
RAMONA your brother has always been diligent. He loves his work. He would never have allowed...
BRUNA but he's human. And under those conditions anyone would have failed in anything
RAMONA I don't want to believe it, I can't believe it
BRUNA even dad would have done that
RAMONA oh poor son. All the fault....
BRUNA have you any news?
RAMONA From the clinic they're coming in hiccups. You don't know what a worry
BRUNA You'll see he'll recover
RAMONA I hope they haven't given him a room overlooking the sea. Do you know how heartbreaking it is to see that mess
BRUNA Angelo went to see him. He said no
RAMONA that boy will be happy to have taken your brother's place
BRUNA Mom momentarily...
RAMONA It's going to be a long thing. And after what happened with his wife, no one in the village....
BRUNA I have to tell you something
RAMONA he shouldn't have married, he shouldn't have...
BRUNA come on mum
RAMONA I told you marriage wasn't for him...
BRUNA there was that law
RAMONA tell me if I haven't always said so
BRUNA what could you do
RAMONA I have always said it or not
BRUNA of course mother, but what does it change
RAMONA not now, but before for sure. Damned regulations. They keep doing damage
BRUNA luckily she's gone
RAMONA that's not true. It's inside the head of every one of these rednecks. That's why he got depressed after his wife jilted him
BRUNA now that he's gone, if Martino....
RAMONA too late they took her away
BRUNA now that he's like this, maybe....
RAMONA what are we going to do with it. No one on the island will accept a separate farist. They should have removed her earlier...
BRUNA I've thought about it a lot
RAMONA ...he only got married to do the same job as his father. He didn't have to marry her
BRUNA He worshipped father, and he wanted to do the same job.
RAMONA At least he could have chosen another one. Did you see what happened? I always said she was restless
BRUNA by the way
RAMONA I've always said it....
BRUNA There's a circus in town
Ramona turns sharply towards Bruna
RAMONA the circus?
BRUNA already
RAMONA you haven't seen it for years
BRUNA they say it was the don who called them
RAMONA don Vittorio?
BRUNA to distract people. Everyone talks about the stranded ship as a bad omen
RAMONA predictable. What was to be expected from these yokels. Now they will interpret anything as the consequence of this disaster. And that don just goes after them. Good thing I made you study in town
BRUNA they saw her there
RAMONA who?
BRUNA Laura
RAMONA Laura?
BRUNA already
RAMONA and why this alarmed tone? He must have brought us his daughter
BRUNA but if she's always with us. Even now. In fact it's time to go to the garden to see what she's doing. Poor thing
RAMONA wait. What do you have to tell me about Laura?
BRUNA maybe it's a bit of a moment for her
RAMONA for God's sake, what do you want to tell me?
BRUNA she was seen clinging to a guy from the circus. A tamer
Ramona turns away, with her back to her daughter
BRUNA what's the matter with you mum
RAMONA Are you sure?
BRUNA many have seen her. But what do you have?
RAMONA nothing. I thought that while my son is in the clinic and their little girl spends time in our garden alone, she.....Diamine! That's not possible
The woman sits on the sofa
BRUNA you want me to open the window a bit
RAMONA I said it, I said it. She shouldn't have married, she shouldn't. And damn the don
BRUNA Don Vittorio?
RAMONA that's him
BRUNA What's that got to do with it?
RAMONA he shouldn't have meddled. But he never sticks his tongue in and ruins the lives of others, even if he thinks otherwise. 'I only think of my community,' he goes on to say. But that is not the case. Otherwise it wouldn't have happened
BRUNA you're not exaggerating
RAMONA had to shut up when Laura told him she was pregnant. They were young. And instead of preaching that they had to get married
BRUNA if they went there, what could he do... he's a priest
RAMONA keep quiet. He had to keep silent
BRUNA they could not go there
RAMONA it was her. I'm sure of it. She knew what the don was made of. She grew up in that environment. Mother made us perpetuals
BRUNA resentment is taking over
RAMONA an ambush
BRUNA but what for?
RAMONA wanted to get married. Enfranchise
BRUNA free himself?
RAMONA And your brother fell for it
BRUNA Martino also wanted to get married. By that law he would never have become a farmer
RAMONA your father was still in his prime. Martino wouldn't have become a farmer straight away. It was a fatality that Primo died prematurely
BRUNA But it did happen
RAMONA yes
BRUNA his dream. Do you remember that speech at dad's funeral
RAMONA and who can forget it. And when I think that now he doesn't want to hear it anymore
BRUNA here mum, that's what I wanted to talk to you about
RAMONA that he doesn't want to know anymore?
BRUNA Noo wait let me say
Ramona approaches Bruna
RAMONA oh your eyes my daughter
BRUNA what do they have?
RAMONA oh God. Me worrying about your brother and I didn't notice yours....
BRUNA what's wrong with them? The dark circles? All night at the lighthouse...
RAMONA nooo, they have a light....
BRUNA it's hard down there
RAMONA they're a wonder
BRUNA Are you serious? Even yours suddenly look different
RAMONA how?
BRUNA I don't know. Different
RAMONA maybe that's what suddenly appeared before me
BRUNA what do you see?
RAMONA happiness
BRUNA oh mother. Maybe you understood and without having to explain
RAMONA weren't they before? Don't tell me no. Please. Don't give me any more guilt
BRUNA mother listen to me
RAMONA What is it about? About this light that blinds me?
BRUNA maybe. Maybe. You know that Martino and I went to the city to study
RAMONA of course, it was I who sent you
BRUNA and very soon
RAMONA I didn't want you to spend your adolescence among narrow-minded people
BRUNA Martino navigation and I tailoring
RAMONA I filled in your registrations
BRUNA well
RAMONA I did it for your future
BRUNA and for this we are grateful
RAMONA especially after what I was forced to live with my family
BRUNA oh mama there isn't a day that goes by that I haven't thought about your story. And the fact that you were taken away from your dreams
RAMONA I should still apologise to you for telling it. I thought I had conveyed sadness to you. And instead this light
BRUNA don't even say it. Thanks to you we crowned our dreams
RAMONA what eyes! Has studying fashion made you so happy? It can only give me pleasure
BRUNA that's exactly what I wanted to talk to you about. You know that unlike Martino I have always suppressed admiration for our father's trade
RAMONA oh my child, you know that...
BRUNA I know, I know that here it is considered a man's job
RAMONA and you did well to be so restrained, even though you knew you were attracted to it
BRUNA But...
RAMONA you don't have to worry about it. You've shown great maturity
BRUNA Of course mother
RAMONA you know what people are like in this place
BRUNA oh yes, but in that town you don't breathe the same bigotry
RAMONA and that's why I sent you. To make you breathe something different. Your brother has always decided not to embark, but you who have studied fashion I don't expect you to sew for the women of this village
BRUNA That's what I wanted to talk to you about. I don't know what happened, maybe the air of that city full of life, maybe the roar of the streets, but I no longer felt those constraints crushing me. And if these eyes now emanate light and joy, I owe it to the fact that I understood who I was
RAMONA What do you want to tell me?
BRUNA Oh mother you have already understood. This light doesn't lie. And so, to every person I met I told them who I was, as I had never done before. And even if reason told me to shut up, that incessant flow came out every time. And so I would tell about dad's work, how much I loved the sea, the routes and the boats
