The Queen and the Rebels

Queen and the Rebels, The (La regina e gli insorti)

    Author: Ugo Betti

    First Performance: 1951, Rome

    Published: 1951

    First English Translation: 1956

    Genre: Drama in 4 acts; Italian prose

    Setting: Town hall in an Italian mountain village, mid-20th c.

    Cast: 7 m, 3f, 1 child (m), extras

Rebel forces searching for Queen Elisabetta, who is trying to escape to safety, have stopped a bus, forcing the passengers to disembark. The military interpreter who interrogates them recognizes the prostitute Argia as his former mistress but now wants nothing to do with her. Argia realizes that a peasant woman is the Queen and denounces her to the rebel chief Commissar Amos. When the Queen tells Argia of the ordeals she has endured, Argia takes pity on her and helps her to escape, and is then...

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