Female Parts

Female Parts (Waking Up; A Woman Alone; The Same Old Story) (Venticinque monologhi per una donna)

    Alternative Title: Tutto casa, letto e chiesa (All Home, Bed, and Church)

    Author: Dario Fo and Franca Rame

    First Performance: 1977, Milan

    Published: 1978

    First English Translation: 1981

    Genre: 3 [of 25] monodramas in 1 act; Italian prose

    Setting: (1 and 2) Apartments in an Italian tenement building, 1970s; (3) Apartment, doctor's surgery, hospital, 1970s

    Cast: 1f in each

    (1) Waking Up or Arise and Shine (Il risveglio). It is 6.30 a.m., and the woman has overslept. While her husband Luigi sleeps on, she leaps out of bed, changes the baby's nappy ready for the nursery, panics about the loss of her door-key, and has to change the nappy...

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