Fratti, Mario (1927-2023). CRISTIANO (a new version of "CAGE"). A Play in Two Acts. New York: Mario Fratti, 1975. Quarto, 11-1/2 inches high by 9 inches wide. Softcover. 85 mechanically reproduced pages, each printed from type on one side of each sheet, bound into a light blue manilla three-hole folder. The folder is titled in red ink on the front cover. The manilla covers are creased. 85 pages with the subtitle "(a new version of 'Cage')" penned in ink on the title page. Very good.
"La gabbia (The Cage, 1963) is a powerful study of fear and isolation. Cristiano, afraid and disgusted with life, has locked himself in a cage and communicates with those outside only by quoting lines from Chekhov. Like Chekhov's characters, Cristiano seeks comfort in words, but the words never conceal his loneliness and despair, his inability to cope with life." - from the bio of the author.
With the distribution slip of the "Laura Dubman Agency" tipped on to the title page. Dubman, a child prodigy classical pianist, was the wife of Mario Fratti.
A mechanically reproduced newspaper review of the play "Cage" is mounted on the inside of the front cover, and a bibliography of the author's works is mounted on the inside of the rear cover.
The Italian author Mario Fratti was the New York drama critic for several European newspapers and a professor of Italian literature at Columbia University. His plays, produced in hundreds of theaters, and translated into several languages, include "Cage", "Suicide", "Academy", "Mafia", "E.Duse", "Chinese Friend", "Refrigerators", "Che Guevara", "Cile 1973", "Madam Senator", "Dialogue With a Negro", and "Patty Hearst", among others.
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