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, Catalan, Portuguese, Croatian, Bulgarian, French, German.
English Premiere: London, Gate Theatre, 1999
with: Ciaran Mcmenamin, Ben Waters - English version by Colin Teevan - Directed by Mick Gordon
READ THE REVIEWS: La Vanguardia 1997
Guardian - Evening Standard - Indipendent 1999
Herald 1999
Time Out - Daily Telegraph - Sunday Times
What's on - Observer - The Times 1999
Wellington 2001
Buenos Aires 2003
La Vanguardia 2010
Diari de Terrassa 2010

Nineteen scenes. Six characters. Dramatic comedy.
On July 22, 2011 on Utoya island in Norway, a far-right criminal kills sixty-nine of the five-hundred-and-sixty teenagers peacefully gathered in a socialist party camp. The story is retold through three couples close to the tragedy: two parents who had sent their daughter to the camp, two policemen who were on the shore of the island during the massacre, and two brothers whose property was adjacent to that of the murderer. All are overwhelmed by the events, and their retelling creates a dramatic and sentimental theater night. Their life can no longer be the same as before. That afternoon marks a point of no return, for them, and for all of Norway.
German Primiere: Staatstheater, Oldenburg 2017
by Edoardo Erba - German version by Sabine Heymann - With: Janine Kreß, Matthias Kleinert, Helen Wendt, Thomas Birklein, Franziska Werner, Fabian Kulp. Directed by Peter Hailer
READ THE REVIEWS: www.nwzonline.de
http://staatstheater.de/utoya.html

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 German, French, Hungarian.
German premiere: Wilhelmshaven 2011
With Seven Brormann, Johannes Simons, Gernot Schmidt, Amelie Miloy, Aom Flury, Wibke Quast
Directed by Jan Steinbach
READ THE REVIEWS: Die deutsche Bühne 2011
Wilhelmshaven 2011
Nacht Kritik.de 2011

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, Swedish.
German Premiere: Frankfurt Oder, 2004
with: Cornelia Heyse, Dirk Audhem, Murali Perumal
German version by Sabine Heymann
Directed by Matthias Brenner
READ THE REVIEWS: Oderzeitung 2004

One act. Two characters. Dramatic comedy.
Esther O’Sullivan, a successful American writer, is accused by the police of a murder that happened several years earlier. To clear her name from the accusations, she recounts the story of an encounter with Rosalyn, an awkward and naive cleaning lady she met at the presentation of her book, The True Nature of One Self. Rosalyn confessed to Esther about her affair with Ben, a deceitful and perverse man who violated Rosalyn both psychologically and physically. Esther was horrified and encouraged Rosalyn to react. How the events unfolded and how Rosalyn drastically changed, Esther doesn’t want to talk about.

Two acts. Seven
A rewriting of The Mistress of the Inn by Carlo Goldoni.
In an ancient mansion about to be transformed into a hotel, Mira finds herself amongst mysterious businessmen in a bizarre dinner organized by her husband. Her husband does not show up and Mira finds herself having to manage an evening whose purpose she does not understand. The only person she can count on is the business’s accountant. However, in the midst of the meal he disappears without giving her an explanation, leaving her to deal with the guests. A stranger then comes in asking for a room to rest. The two businessmen seem incredibly attracted to Mira and she involves the stranger to address the precarious situation. Meanwhile, as time goes by, disturbing glimpses of Mira’s absent husband come to light. As the night progresses, the game becomes ever more dangerous. What is Mira’s role, is she really as naïve as she makes us think?

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.
English Premiere: Warehouse Theatre, Croydon 2003
Directed by Massimo Marinoni

Two acts. Three characters. Dramatic comedy
Maurizio, a forty year old mechanic, receives his medical results, which leave little hope. He discovers they are not his: they belong to a stranger, Luigi. Maurizio meets him on the shores of the Aniene River, with the intention of handing them back. Luigi is a fisherman in his sixties, elated for the impending marriage to a woman from Romania. Maurizio though, does not have the courage to hand him the medical papers. A year later, it’s Luigi who brings bad news to Maurizio, though this time it has nothing to do with medical results, because in the meantime, something strange and disturbing has happened.

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.
Available in Croatian, French.

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, Portugaise.
Usa premiere: Stages Theatre, Los Angeles 1990
with Paul Skemp and David Duensing
Directed by Paul Verdier
READ THE REVIEWS: Los Angeles Times 1991

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.
Usa premiere: Stages Theatre, Los Angeles, 1991
With Grace Zabrinsky, Paul Verdier, Paul Skemp, John Walcutt
English version by Paul Verdier e Alessandra Coli
Directed by Paul Verdier
READ THE REVIEWS Los Angeles Reader 1991

Six sceens. Two women.
A video call between two friends, Fiamma and Lorella, in their fifties, who haven’t seen each other in a long time. They start with small talk until Lorella announces the big news: she got married, a stroke of luck given how unlucky she’s been with men in the past years. The story gets even more interesting when Lorella starts revealing details about her husband. She describes him as the perfect man, but with one interesting characteristic, he is invisible. Fiamma is worried that her friend’s isolation led to some irreparable damage. As she tries to help Lorella out, she realizes she’s also attracted to the invisible world.

Two acts. Four characters. Dramatic comedy
Orsina is a ‘hoarder’, who is not aware of her discomfort. The neighbours, who hate her obsession for accumulating stuff, blame her for being responsible for the building’s filth, saying it originates from her apartment. They want her to move out, so they hire a building administrator named Aristide since, being full of debts, he can be easily blackmailed. Aristide, touched by Orsina’s affection to each and every object, believes he will be able to help her clear everything up.

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.

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.
Available in Catalan, French.

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. Available in French, Russian.
Russian premiere: San Pietroburgo 2011

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.
German Premiere: Deutsches Schaulpielhaus, Amburgo 2002

TTwo acts. Three men.
Four actors that have become friends some years before, suddenly become three due to the death of one of them. Gallo, one of the three, has had a quick and flourishing career and is starring in successful movies. Meanwhile, the other two, who are in desperate need for a job, ask Gallo to act with them in a representation of Hamlet. Gallo refuses the offer and pledges never to act in a theater again, after the loss of his friend. In the attempt of convincing Gallo, the two propose to insert the dead friend in the play, assigning him the character of the Ghost. Gallo is reluctant about the offer until one night the Ghost comes to visit him. It appears that the Ghost wants revenge from his friends so they’re bound to confess their betrayals.

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.

Two acts. Two men
Maurice is a movie director who is working to stage Role Play by Pirandello, together with Carmine, a Sicilian stage technician he just hired. Carmine is lazy and has no idea on how to stage a play, that’s why in order to waste time, he dwells on every detail of the script.
Unexpectedly, his ideas are so innovative they inspire Maurice to direct the play in a totally different manner, transforming it into a pulp version of Pirandello. The roles between the two characters start to invert. Carmine starts to lead the direction and Maurice assists him, but in this new play, as in Pirandello’s scripts, everything is not as it seems.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One act. Twelve characters. Comedy
Italy, 1895. Sixteen year old Einstein, a passenger on a train from Milan to Genoa, meets a girl whom he falls in love with and is witness to a strange incident of a supposed theft. The inquiry of the theft is conducted by the young Einstein himself and makes him prematurely guess the principle of relativity. Available in English

Two acts. Six characters. Musical
Italy, 1948. To make a saint takes three miracles, but Sister Ercolina has only made two happen. While looking for the third one, Cardinal Dorigo ends up meeting Michelina, a rice weeder, who has become an improvised showgirl, dancing in some mediocre dance halls along with an unsuccessful crooner. Cardinal Dorigo and Michelina fall in love. Hierarchy attempts to divide them, but it will be the saint herself to unite them. Because love is the true miracle.

Nine scenes. Two characters. Dramatic comedy.
The play consists of nine small and surprising comedies. The performers are always two, a man and a woman. In each piece however, the situations the two face and the relationships between them are very different. The only thing these nine comedies have in common is their style. The author first begins with recognizable, everyday situations, but by then bending reality, the story takes off and borders on the surreal. The writing skill is in the speed of its construction: no word is wasted and every detail holds a double meaning, which is fully revealed only at the end.

Twenty scenes. Three women, two men.
Cruz wakes up one morning with a strange sense of emptiness and receives a video message from herself: she lost her memory because she has sold it. We’re in 2122 and humanity is divided in two: the Masses and the Increased ones. The Masses are poor and live crammed in the only areas of the planet that have not been desertified, while the Increased are wealthy individuals who bought memories at a cheap price to expand their mental capacity.
Cruz has two options: kill herself or start making memories all over again.

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.