Author: Dario Fo (Italy 1926), Franca Rame
Translation: Renate Chotjewitz-Häfner
Genre: Radio play
Production: RIAS 1987
Director: Götz Naleppa
Editing: Götz Naleppa
Length: 55 min.

Contributors:
Angelica Domröse, Werner Rehm

Content:
Giovanni thinks his wife's suicide attempts are exaggerated. What is so bad about repeated flings? Antonia obviously doesn't want to understand the advantages of an open relationship between two people. Instead of clinging, she could also learn to appreciate the positive sides of independence and variety. Antonia actually learns, refuses the usual counselling sessions for her husband's mistresses, gets herself the right outfit to go with her new self-confidence, her own flat and: a lover with Superman qualities. Dark suicidal thoughts are a thing of the past. But not for Giovanni. If the open two-way relationship was the solution for him until now, now that the relationship is open to both sides, he threatens suicide in turn.
Unlike the Nordic marriage dramas of an Ibsen or Bergmann, a grim ending is not to be expected here, for the Italian Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo is firmly convinced 'that in laughter, in the grotesque of satire, lies the highest expression of doubt, the most important aid to reason'.