| SANDRO GOBO |
- An "F" Drama (a drama of phrases) -
THEME: The (un)conditionality of communication
NUMBER OF CHARACTERS: 2 (1 male, 1 female)
NUMBER OF ACTS: 16 frames and a closing zoom
SETTING: A TV studio
TIME: The present
WRITTEN IN: 1993
SUMMARY:
The play commences with the customary phrase and/or questions which are
statements in advance of the presumed answers, which cannot be responded to
negatively nor positively. The intention is that the cliché question-answer
form speedily leads to exhaustion, that an attempt is made to reconstruct and
reproduce speech at the level of communication of the momentary interests of the
perceptor and the percipient in the play which leads to a falsified renewal of
speech.
The play was premiered at the Little Theatre in Labin on December 12 1997.
SUMMARY:
Inna (IN) and Outmaker (OUT) try, in the midst of preparing the pater familias
(OUT) - a travelling salesman by occupation - for a business trip, to carry out
a reconstruction and recapitulation of past and future events. That is why the
scenes are named before and after while the events take place as if on a
photographic film; it is not possible exactly to define to which time-slot the
events belong. It is only introductorily to each scene that one can detect that
the action is taking place immediately before the departure and/or immediately
after the return from the business trip.
BIOGRAPHY:
Sandro Gobo was born in 1969 in Pula. He lives and works in Labin in Istria. His play What Should I Call You Eva Lisa was an entry in the Republic of Croatia's Ministry of Culture 1999 contest for a drama work - the Marin Drić prize. At the beginning of April 2000 a book of his plays called A Depiction of Things was published by the Ritam grada Rhythm of the CityĆ society from Labin. The book contains the plays ETC and Blitz.
ADDRESS:
Sandro Gobo, Kature 7/2 No. 9, 52220 Labin
Tel.: (at home) +385 52 857 407;
Fax: (at work) +395 52 955 654