Sorrowful mystery at Theatre Studio

The text of the remaining unpublished Ortese for years and published only after the death of the writer, is already a cult of Italian literature.
Approached at Cana, which seems pained anticipation in atmospheres and in themes, sorrowful mystery, set in 18th-century Naples, "lost under a sky brightness of a gemstone, collected in an enchanted Hush", is the story of a love lived through the disturbances of mind of a young woman, a little girl, who in "painful" diamond of the face, Moon's whiteness, bears the stigmata of beings belonging to a celestial world and inviolablewhich perhaps live on Earth just to bet or to joke ". Florida, the beautiful daughter of seamstress Ferrantina 13, falls in love with Cyril, Prince, nephew of the King, maybe someday heir to the throne of Spain.

"It's a very rich, to Anna Maria Ortese explains Ronconi-suggestive and imaginative. Galatea Ranzi take a reading, not the depiction of a set of characters; rather the glare of those imaginary figures in the mind of the reader. From the first pages, sorrowful mystery we look for what the title same complaint: an enigma. The story of the small Florida is real? Figment of the imagination of a child, who imagines the young Prince? Or is a projection of her mother, Ferrantina, who as a vision of the dead child in conversation with the girl? The important thing is to enjoy the writing of Ortese and his uncanny ability to charm ".