Filumena Marturano
Filumena Marturano (sometimes staged as Filumena) [1] is a 1946 play by Italian playwright and philosopher Eduardo de Filippo (1900–1984).
It is his best-known work and arguably his finest comedy-drama, drenched in Neapolitan atmosphere and full of entanglements at once cynical and romantic. In the heat of late-1940s Naples, Filumena Maraturano lies on her deathbed awaiting her marriage to Domenico Soriano, the man who has kept her as his mistress for twenty-seven years. But no sooner has the priest completed the ceremony than Filumena makes a miraculous recovery. As he reels in shock, Domenico discovers that this brilliant, iron-willed woman has a few more surprises for him. [2]
Contents
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Translated into English by Keith Waterhouse [3] and Willis Hall [4] in 1977.
Translated from English into Afrikaans by Herman Pretorius as Filumena in 1982 .
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
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