White Wedding

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=80 BGCOLOR="#330066" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="222467f1dkblkv.gif"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" michele celeste/"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B> /</B><B> michele celeste/</B><B>/</B><A HREF="id105.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ENGLISH STAGE PLAYS"><U><B>STAGE PLAYS Originals & Adaptations in English</B></U></A><B>/</B></div> <div> <B>White Wedding</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=25% BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="144" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#BF0000" BORDERCOLORDARK="#BF0000" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 WIDTH="132"><div> <B><IMG SRC="47a1e120.gif" border=0 width="30" height="18" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">STAGE ADAPTATIONS IN ENGLISH</B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Italian version</B></div> <div> <B>Versione italiana</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id241.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="NOZZE BIANCHE"><U><B>NOZZE BIANCHE</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>===</B></div> <div> <B>White Wedding</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id253.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Opera Buffa! 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(English)</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id255.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mistero buffo (English)"><U><B>mistero buffo (English)</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=400 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <B>(Still unperformed in English)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="509" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#330066" BORDERCOLORDARK="#330066" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 160 WIDTH="497"><div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Rockwell" ><B> </B></FONT><B>WHITE WEDDING</B><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#330066" FACE="Rockwell" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <div> <B>Premio Candoni-Arta Terme, 2001 </B></div> <div> <B>(Udine - Italy)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>(“If today's farce is going to be tomorrow's tragedy - today's  farce should make us weep… And if today's tragedy is going to be tomorrow's farce - today's tragedy</B></div> <div> <B>should make us laugh.“ Michele Celeste)</B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div> *</div> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="309" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#330066" BORDERCOLORDARK="#330066" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 169 ><NOBR><div> <B>          CHARACTERS</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>STEFANO, the father</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>REBECCA, the mother</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>TINA, their teenage daughter</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>DONATELLO, Tina's boyfriend</B></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div> <B>*</B></div> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="539" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#BF0000" BORDERCOLORDARK="#BF0000" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 572 WIDTH="527"><div> <B>BRIEF SYNOPSIS</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>"The killing of my mother, that shall be my task." </B></div> <div> <B>Electra, Euripides</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>A small town nearby Milan (Northern Italy). Following a murder he committed twenty years before Stefano Capanna, a Southerner, was banished to the North of the country. From then on Stefano, assisted by his wife Rebecca, has made a new honest life for himself, even though he has had to pay the price of a social isolation.  When Tina, their only daugher, asks them for permission to invite for lunch Donatello Verdi, a local young man with a disreputable reputation, Stefano and  Rebecca refuse point blank. However Tina, who has been suffering in silence since she was a child her parents' isolation, and being still a virgin, cannot resist a relationship with Donatello, the only person apart from her parents, to show any affection for her. Donatello's criminal activities become more and more blatant.  But even so first Tina and then Rebecca defeat Stefano's strenuos opposition and Donatello is accepted in their  home.  Two months later Tina's and Donatello's wedding preparations are well underway.  However  Rebecca and Donatello start a sexual relationship. One day Stefano gets back home from the shops with Tina's wedding dress to find Rebecca and Donatello in bed.  The murderous instinct he has stifled for twenty years grips him again. Stefano shoots at the two.  Rebecca ends </B><B>up in a coma in hospital, bu</B><B>t Donatello manages to run away.  Tina finds out what has happened.  Unable to accept to have been betrayed by the people she most loved, she takes a revenge</B></div> <div> <B>even more extreme than her father's.</B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="228" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#330066" BORDERCOLORDARK="#330066" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 ><NOBR><div> <B>Go to the </B><B>Italian original</B></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 ><NOBR><div> <B>Vai all'originale italiano </B></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="216"><div> <A HREF="id241.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="NOZZE BIANCHE"><U><B>NOZZE BIANCHE</B></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div> <B>===</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>