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...play about what can happen to people who answer Real Paper classifieds. A young student in Rome named Elena responds to an ad offering free room and board in return for companionship. As a result, she is forced to listen to the long neurotic monologues of her host, Teresa; falls in love with Teresa's estranged husband, Lorenzo; and finally gets shot to death...
...first half of the play is practically a single speech an hour long. Teresa, very well played by Amy Moss, pours out the story of her life, sloppily, like soup overflowing a saucer--her nightmares, unhappy childhood, financial problems, and unrequited love for her husband. "Is all this boring you?" she asks Elena (Anne Singer)--a risky suggestion for an author to make to an audience when presenting this kind of familiar material. But Ginzburg carries it off, and instead of sounding like your roommate's version of hell at Harvard, the first act is hypnotic and convincing...
...Michael, a petty crook full of ambition but lacking Charlie's family connections. He mimics George Raft, and is sulky and dangerous when he thinks he's being crossed. Charlie appears to have some compassion for both, just as he appears to have some understanding of his girlfriend's (Teresa, the film's only unconvincing portrait) epilepsy. Associating with these people hurts Charlie's "career", because he has to stay in good with Uncle and the traditional ideal of "honorable men." On the surface, then, he stands out as heroic...
...Naples that few would recognize. The cafes, the hotels and the markets were eerily quiet and empty. For infection-wary prostitutes, it was never on weekdays as well as Sundays. Sullen crowds milled in the streets, and people eyed each other with suspicion. A placard outside the Zi' Teresa restaurant - closed by a strike, although there were no customers to speak of anyway - explained the city's unsettled mood. CHOLERA BROUGHT us TO OUR KNEES, it read, NOW WE ARE WAITING FOR THE COUP DE GRACE...
...writer-defendants, all in their 30s and all mothers of small children, are Maria Velho da Costa and Maria Isabel Barreno, both published novelists who do research for Portugal's Ministry of Economics, and Maria Teresa Horta, a well-known poet who edits the literary supplement of a Lisbon newspaper. The book they put together from their writings-they collaborated through an exchange of views in letters and at weekly lunches and dinners-is no mere feminist tract but a work of literary merit. It is now being translated into several languages and will be published...