The Rape of the Sabine (Il ratto delle Sabine)

What time is it?

What time is it?

What time is it?

- A quarter to noon. - Hamlet, scene lll act lV.

"The hour is approaching when the spectrum uses vagar."

The hour of hunger is approaching.

LAUGHS

"Romulus, if you want it, here we will relive Romans and Sabines in peace..."

SHOUT

Silence! <Professor!

Beware!

Mr. Director,

every day I let my students do some gymnastics.

Which gymnastics? Of the vocal cords. It is my method.

Persichetti, make the manager feel.

LAUGH

Today, in life, the most screaming is right.

So... you have to get used to them as boys. Yes, excellent system.

- In gymnastics, go well. - Thank you.

You have also made progress in design.

Well done. To reward you, you can go out 5 minutes before.

Thank you, Mr. Director.

Mr. Director, I'm glad you enjoyed my method.

Also in drawing... see...

Today I called the last of the class and I told him:

"I want to see if you have a spirit of observation.

Draw your teacher, as you see him."

- He poor... - He did as he saw you. - Yes.

- A fool. - But...

Silence! And stand at attention!

- I'm not a schoolboy. - Worse!

If it were not for the immense esteem I have of your lady...

- The one who is a woman! - That yes.

Silence! If it were not for her, I'd drive you away. Shame on you!

Once again, thank your lady.

Thank you, oh madam!

- Thank God we have arrived. - Damn, how should you travel!

- Tonino, the dog. - Here I am.

Slowly!

- Carrettiere, where is the theater? - Ln the top of the country.

- Why did you leave us here? - Horses hate theater.

When they see it, they kick and break everything.

Nobody goes to the theater here.

- Enjoy your meal. - As? - Enjoy your meal!

RINTOCCHl Dl CAMPANE

Giovanni, who did you transport today?

- Those of the theater, the comedians. - Keep away! Well?

Before mounting, otherwise I did not load them. - You did well.

Prepare me the spaghetti and the lamb.

I'll make you tagliatelle and chicken cacciatore!

I bring the beasts to the barn, they too have the right to eat.

We are all proletarians and we all have the same right!

Instead today we do not eat and tomorrow not even.

Chew and drink for 3 days in a row!

A little moderation! Dear consort, now we will go to the theater.

The impresario will give us an adequate advance...

and "My belly made hut!"

I do not even give you a penny in advance!

Here there is nothing to do.

The public does not come to the theater even if you pay it.

If it was for eating and drinking, then... Exactly...

I know the public, I've been doing this job for 30 years.

We need to wake him up, he wants sensational titles, that shake him,

that make him shiver! Theater! Theater!

I would like to act for 3 evenings alone, with my 3 "battle horses".

"Civil Death", "Ghosts" and "Living Cadavers".

And then "The hyena of the cemetery".

Father, I could do "The buried alive".

Father the corpse, the daughter buried her...

We joke? The public wants the romantic!

In this my wife and I are specialized.

MON CER THE LMPRESUAR! My dear manager,

when she sees us in JULIET AND ROMEA,

ROMETTO AND GIULIERA, in the masterpiece of SIK and SPIRRE, then...

Shakespeare, Giulietta and Romeo, Paolo and Francesca are all friends.

I think of one thing: Eat and drink.

I do not think about it anymore. - I can assure you that you will not make a penny.

Amen.

Anyway, you saw the theater. It's a bit dirty. - Nonsense.

But I do not spend even a penny for cleaning. - It is not necessary.

He thinks about the rats.

It is always alert. He can not see dogs.

- Do you bite? - Only dogs.

- Exactly! These guys... - Are you referring to me?

Tancredi, I respect you as a man and as a dog... as an artist.

I have done the "shoulder" to Salvini, I can do it to you too.

You did not even give him a knee to Salvini.

I have acted in companies where art was true,

where pure Italian was spoken.

You will make these discussions in your home. Are not we at home?

Yes, but now go to sleep, you will be tired. Here is a good hotel.

Hotel? We eat and sleep here.

I do not allow my actors to move away from the path of art.

- It's a matter of atmosphere. - Do as you wish.

In the evening I remove the light and lock it. Is an excellent idea.

- Ah, I want to give you... - No, leave it alone.

It's smooth... it escapes. It's a gift, a memory. Your? - Yes.

I want to give you the list of all the notables in the country.

They could take the subscription, but I hope for a little.

They have a lot of money, but they do not understand anything about theater.

They would be happier if you invited them for lunch.

May God help you!

Everything is prepared for the best!

Tancredi, what do you think, invite them for lunch?

We need to change repertoire. Let me do "Civil death".

Tancredi! Even if it is civil, death is always death!

"So much goes the cat to lard that leaves us the hand.".

Dog. Dog. Dog!

- Aristide, when do we eat? - When we're older.

Go to the dressing room to rest.

Do not waste energy. Where's the prompter? Lа.

Germans, come here.

When the manager calls you, you must come!

I do not move. If I get up, I fall.

Turiddu, machinists! Are the scenarios and customs ready?

What are you saying? We're trying to get some mouse for tonight.

Emilio!

- Emilio! - Want, knight?

- Are you educated? - Well... - Are you "fresh" about studies? - Yes.

Did you read the story of Napoleon? Sure.

So look at me, I'm Napoleon in Waterloo.

What a languor of the stomach!

Do you hear these complaints? They are my soldiers who are agonizing.

You are my faithful ordinance. Good boy.

Take brush and glue and go to town

to attack the posters of the great Compagnia Tromboni.

I still have hope: This list.

We'll see each other in an hour in the square. The battle is decisive.

"So, Romulus, if you want it, here we will relive, Romans and Sabines

in peace, honest, fermenting."

The canvas falls and ends the drama of "The rape of the Sabines".

What a pity! Right in the most beautiful moment.

- Why does it end? - Sooner or later it must end.

Already, everything ends. Even the sugar is finished, Mr. Master.

We will buy it. But I talk to you about art and you think about sugar?

It was a SOCIETY of ideas.

You're good! When did you write it? This morning at school.

- You really liked school children! - Yes, even to the director.

- He likes his wife. - How do you know?

He told me: "The one who is a woman!"

It is fixed that my wife is a woman. Is not she a woman?

- Sure! - So why is it fixed?

- He. - She? - The other!

The manager has a lot of respect for my lady.

The lady is respected by everyone, even by her.

Because when Madame Matilde looks at her,

she does not understand anything anymore and stutters?

- M... but c .. what are you saying? - She makes me sorry.

It is a pain that my wife is tied to poetry.

But if you read the final of "The rape of the SARDINES..."

- Sabine! They are women, not fish. - It's the same, it's beautiful.

Tonight, while I was washing dishes, I was thinking of that villain

that binds the slave to the tree. I felt like crying.

BELL

Go, Rosina, they're playing.

I recognize the ring.

Mr. Alberto and Miss Mariannina. What intelligence!

What a beautiful gash!

"A trumpet sound is heard on the right,

on the left a shriek answers." Thief!

It is Loreto! We heard it from the corridor. Good morning, dad.

- Says "thief" to everyone. - One day I will pull his neck.

- If your mother hears you! He loves it. - That's why I can not stand it.

- You're jealous? - No, I'm unpleasant. - Mrs Matilde likes it so much.

Do you have any news about mom? He did not write. Not even Paolina.

Evidently at the sea they are fine.

- What's that? - Nothing, the book of accounts.

Dear father-in-law, those are not accounts, but songs. Verses, poems, is not it?

It's my last drama, "The Rape of the Sabines". - Really?

Read the final.

Then? - I put the company posters all over the country.

- I am satisfied. - I'm happy too.

I made many stairs, I knocked on many doors

and I spoke to many fat, dry, blond, brown waitresses.

But the answer is always the same: Theater? No theater.

I wanted to answer, but the door... Bum, in the face! Gloss.

Let's try with this professor.

BELL

Excuse me, but I have a cheerful character.

- You ate, right? - Of course, even the master.

Everyone eats!

- It is with him that "I dare to speak". - As?

Vulgarly, "to speak". Now he sleeps. He will wake up. - Yes.

I wait. Tell him I'm "on leave".

If you want to take advantage of me, I am familiar with the owner.

I got that. What does it do to you?

You trust me because I do not say anything to the lady.

Ah, there's also the lady. - Now she's at the seaside with Miss Paolina,

so he unleashes himself with me.

Today we arrived at the end. How beautiful!

He has to wake him up, so we give him this block.

- Are they taxes? - No, tickets to go to the theater.

- At the theatre? - Yes. I am an artist.

One of those that makes the audience laugh? I make him cry.

I am the cavalier Aristide Tromboni of the dramatic company of the same name.

- Do you play comedies? - Funny comedies! Drama.

Then you are like "the cheese on macaroni"! Do not blaspheme.

I'm going to wake up the master.

Wait here, I'll be right back. Take a seat.

Thief.