Francesco Ghisu

L'ora accanto

The play wants to explore afterlife, death re-emerging into life even just for an hour in a whirlwind of powerful emotions ranging from disbelief to joy and anger, until total despair and the last goodbye.

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"Tomorrow, I won't be alive anymore," Francesco tersely tells his family, gathered for dinner. He has decided to commit suicide because he can't bear living without his wife, who died three months earlier, and can't imagine the idea of getting used to the pain. After the initial shock, his parents and his sisters try to make him change his mind.