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    In Piazza San Domenico
    In Piazza San Domenico
    In Piazza San Domenico
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    In Piazza San Domenico

    By Steve Galluccio

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    Steve Galluccio's newest stage triumph is a comedy set in 1952 Naples. It recounts how one broken engagement ripples throughout friends and family, affecting all of their respective lives in different ways. In a world conflicted by traditional values and postwar-era thinking, theatrical archetypes evolve into stereotypes that became hallmarks of the Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni films in the early 1960s.

    A favourite of the Montreal Fringe Festival, Steve Galluccio is a playwright with a delightful flair for comedy. His fast-paced plays are full of populist art, local references, and camp sensibility.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTalonbooks
    Release dateSep 13, 2011
    ISBN9780889227330
    In Piazza San Domenico
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    Steve Galluccio

    Steve Galluccio started his career in the Montreal underground theatre scene in 1990. He burst into the mainstream with Mambo Italiano, one of the most successful plays in Canadian theatre history. The play was turned into a movie which became an international hit, sold in more than fifty-three countries, including the U.S. Galluccio followed Mambo with the Gemini Award-winning TV series Ciao Bella. Ciao Bella was also broadcast in Europe and the United States. Galluccio’s second feature film Surviving My Mother won the audience favourite award at the Montreal Film Festival, and was featured in many prestigious film festivals all over the world. Galluccio’s third feature, the bilingual Funkytown opened in January 2011. In Piazza San Domenico, Galluccio’s ninth play, was the number one comedy in Montreal in the fall of 2009, selling out most of its extended run. In 2012, Galluccio released Montréal à la Galluccio, a whimsical guide of his beloved hometown of Montreal.

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      Book preview

      In Piazza San Domenico - Steve Galluccio

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      Table of Contents

      Cover

      Production History

      Act One

      Act Two

      Copyright

      In Piazza San Domenico premiered at the Centaur Theatre, Montreal, on October 6, 2009, with the following cast and crew:

      ISABELLA BENEVENTO: Ellen David

      CARMELINA BENEVENTO: Christina Broccolini

      TONINO ALBANINO: Michel Perron

      MARISA ALBANINO: Jocelyne Zucco

      GUIDO MANDOLINO: Guido Cocomello

      PASQUALE SANTO CUORE: Vittorio Rossi

      MAFALDA OCCHIUTO: Mara Lalli

      SEVERINO ALBANINO: Carl Alacchi

      Director: Roy Surette

      Costume design: James Lavoie

      Set and props: John Dinning

      Stage manager: Luciana Burcheri

      Assistant stage manager: Sarah Marie Langlois

      Assistant to the director: Adam Blanshay

      Act One

      We are in Naples in 1952. The song Funiculì, Funiculà plays in the background.

      The set consists of an Italian piazza, surrounded by houses and a church. A kitchen occupies one corner of the set (if the set is two-tiered, the kitchen can occupy the top tier). The kitchen’s decor is very rustic and typical of a Neapolitan kitchen in the early fifties.

      Wash fades in on ISABELLA BENEVENTO, a woman in her late forties. ISABELLA looks older than her age, with her hair done up in a bun and her long black house dress. Since her husband was killed in World War II, ISABELLA has always worn black.

      ISABELLA is vigorously sweeping her kitchen floor as a commotion is heard outside. ISABELLA ignores it at first, but then one line of conversation catches her attention: S’è svenuta la signorina Carmelina [Miss Carmelina fainted]. Panicked, ISABELLA drops her broom to go to the window and shout:

      ISABELLA

      Chè successo? Carmelina! Chè successo? [What happened?]

      As she heads for the exit, she comes face to face with CARMELINA BENEVENTO (her daughter, a beautiful woman in her early twenties), who is being escorted in by TONINO, a stocky man in his forties, and his wife MARISA, also in her forties.

      ISABELLA

      (panicked) Carmelina! What happened? Can someone please tell me what happened?!

      CARMELINA

      It’s nothing, mamma.

      TONINO

      Nothing?! She fainted in the middle of the Piazza San Domenico!

      CARMELINA

      Fainted, even you—I just closed my eyes for two seconds.

      ISABELLA

      Tonino, get her a chair.

      TONINO rushes to get her a chair.

      MARISA

      No! Don’t make her sit. If she sits, all the blood is gonna rush to her heart and she’s gonna die!

      TONINO

      (putting the chair back) Marisa, when someone faints, it’s better to sit down than to stand up, no?

      MARISA

      What do you know about being at death’s door, you?

      ISABELLA

      (to the heavens) Dio mio, you took my husband, don’t take my daughter too!

      CARMELINA

      No one’s taking me anywhere. It’s the heat, that’s all.

      ISABELLA

      How many times do I gotta tell you not to go out in the middle of the afternoon?

      (to TONINO) Go get her a glass of water.

      TONINO fetches some water.

      MARISA

      No! The water’s gonna go straight to her lungs and drown her in her own fluids.

      TONINO

      (going back to the sink to throw the water out) Uffa.

      ISABELLA

      How did this happen?

      MARISA

      We were walking in the Piazza San Domenico and, next thing you know, Carmelina faints in my husband’s arms.

      TONINO

      She woulda cracked her skull open if I wasn’t there to catch her!

      MARISA

      You, you’re always there to catch someone, especially if it’s not me!

      TONINO

      I caught you plenty of times.

      MARISA

      Yeah, yeah.

      ISABELLA

      Grazie a dio you caught her! How can I ever thank you?

      MARISA

      There’s no need to thank us.

      TONINO

      A little glass of wine might be nice.

      MARISA shoots TONINO a dirty look.

      MARISA

      Let’s go.

      ISABELLA

      Thank you so much for saving my only child’s life.

      TONINO

      It was my pleasure.

      CARMELINA

      Grazie, Tonino. Grazie, Marisa.

      MARISA

      I’ll light a candle to the Virgin Mary on our way home, to protect you from internal bleeding.

      TONINO

      (on their way out) Where you gonna go light this candle, even you? The church in Piazza San Domenico is closed.

      MARISA

      The one in Piazza Garibaldi is open.

      TONINO

      That’s clear across town!

      MARISA

      You have to make everyone see what a selfish piece of shit you are?!

      And they’re out.

      ISABELLA

      Go lie down.

      CARMELINA

      I don’t need to lie down.

      ISABELLA

      I’m calling dottor Donato.

      CARMELINA

      Never mind dottor Donato. He’s gonna wanna listen to my heartbeat just to have an excuse to take off my bra!

      ISABELLA

      (feeling her forehead) You’re all hot.

      CARMELINA

      It’s August in Naples; of course I’m hot.

      ISABELLA

      I’m gonna make you some coffee.

      CARMELINA

      Okay, make me coffee.

      ISABELLA

      No. Coffee is gonna

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