Emergency Exit, by Manlio Santanelli, is a play written originally in Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

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Summary

The action of Emergency Exit, a two-act play by Manlio Santanelli, takes place in a place where there should be no action. Two squatters in an abandoned house in Naples

Naples

Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

 wage psychological war on one another as the house, shaken by earthquakes, teeters on the brink of collapse.

Review

"Extraordinary, intended for audiences who hunger for the rare and the beautiful." –Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian and French playwright and dramatist, and one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd...

Editions

• Translated from Italian by Anthony Molino
  Anthony Molino
  -Life:He has received a Fulbright scholarship to the University of Florence.His work appeared in Two Lines.He lives in Philadelphia.-Awards:* 1996 Academy of American Poets Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Fellowship* Fulbright Foundation...
  
  , with Jane House. Grand Terrace, California
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  : Xenos Books
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  . ISBN 1-879378-40-X (paper), xiii + 119 p. [With cover art by Harvey Fry.]