PERSONAGGI
- Micuccio Bonavino, sonatore di banda.
- Marta Marnis, madre di
- Sina Marnis, cantante.
- Ferdinando, cameriere.
- Dorina, cameriera.
- Invitati.
- Altri Camerieri.
Oggi — In una città dell'Italia settentrionale
About This Book
A one-act comedy set mainly in a dim antechamber follows a provincial musician who arrives at night to find a young singer and ends up waiting while servants prepare a lavish reception; through exchanges with household staff and the singer's mother, the play exposes tensions between humble origins and urban spectacle, the fragile hopes attached to talent and patronage, and the mixture of comedy and melancholy that shapes characters' pride, longing, and self-deception.