That Fucked-Up Interaction

By Rosario Stefanelli

THEATRE. SINGLE ACT
Lorenzo and Giovanna find themselves on the beach after escaping from the business centre where they work. Actually Lorenzo does not work there. He is a performer and that morning, in a suit and tie, he slipped into the lift of the skyscraper. And once he got to the eightieth floor, he started undressing and shouting for anyone who had the courage to escape from that cloaca and follow him anywhere. He found in Joan the only adept

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rosario
• Release date: Oct 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9791222010892

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THAT FUCKED-UP INTERACTION

Of

ROSARIO STEFANELLI

SINGLE ACT

Characters

Lorenzo

Giovanna

Pelato

Lorenzo and Giovanna return to the beach after a swim in the ocean. They sit on sunbeds. Next to them are some clothes. A tie, a jacket and a shirt. A little further away, a woman's dress. Giovanna stares at Lorenzo, looking at the horizon. The man in his forties turns smiling towards the woman

LORENZO What are you staring at?

GIOVANNA For a moment I glimpsed a melancholic air

LORENZO The horizon always does that to me

GIOVANNA Only the horizon? I was watching you before you got in the lift

LORENZO Really? How come?

GIOVANNA You intrigued me. I didn't think someone with such sad eyes would be capable of something like that.

LORENZO And yet...

GIOVANNA Maybe I saw wrong. Like a moment ago

LORENZO Surely entering that sewer can't produce joy. But we're at the sea. And above all we have escaped from that insulting life. We can't be sad people

GIOVANNA That's right. And then today the ocean is beautiful

LORENZO You must be proud

GIOVANNA Me?

LORENZO It's also thanks to you that today is beautiful.

GIOVANNA Really?

LORENZO Of course

GIOVANNA I never thought you were capable of such a thing.

LORENZO Believe it

GIOVANNA After what we did this morning, anything can be

LORENZO Absolutely

GIOVANNA Nice to be with positive people. What lightness...

Lorenzo stares at GIOVANNA

GIOVANNA Don't you think it's wonderful

LORENZO Of course it's wonderful

GIOVANNA So if we hadn't done what we did, the sea would be....

LORENZO Horrendous. A lousy day. A stormy sea

GIOVANNA What a bizarre thought

LORENZO Why?

GIOVANNA I like it

LORENZO The fishermen will come to thank you

GIOVANNA Now you're making fun of me

LORENZO Not a chance. You wanted to come here. You did it the way we know how. It's not for everyone. And the sea couldn't help but reward you. The sun, the sky. In short, nature is kind to those who dare to take their lives into their own hands. And you can do it. As early as tomorrow

GIOVANNA What anxiety!

LORENZO Anxious?

GIOVANNA OK we're here, we've got through the boring life, but then

LORENZO Will you have a project?

GIOVANNA No

LORENZO Impossible

GIOVANNA I ran away without thinking of the consequences

LORENZO But inside you knew it could happen. And you must have wandered around in your head for a while about what to do in case the imponderable occurred

GIOVANNA I never thought about it

LORENZO I can't believe it

GIOVANNA believe it. That's how it is

LORENZO I'm sorry. It's hard without a plan, living without a tomorrow, groping in the night. It would put