Saturday, Sunday, Monday

Saturday, Sunday, Monday (Sabato, domenico e lunedì)

    Author: Eduardo de Filippo

    First Performance: 1959, Rome

    Published: 1960

    First English Translation: 1974

    Genre: Com. in 3 acts; Italian (Neapolitan dialect) prose

    Setting: Priores' house, Naples, 1950s

    Cast: 11m, 6f

On a Saturday, Rosa Priore is preparing ragù for Sunday lunch with her maid. She is married to Peppino, the owner of a successful men's clothing shop in Naples, and, after 30 years, their marriage is showing the strain. Two of her three children live at home and are also causing her concern: her son Rocco would like to open his own shop, but his father resists this; her daughter Giulianella has the opportunity to work in television, but her boyfriend will not let her. At the major ritual of a Neapolitan Sunday...

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