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The panorama of human affairs encounters the "man with a movie camera". But what are the last days of this humanity? Have they already passed? Are they now or still to come?

For La Stampa: "the theatrical-television success of the year". Spin off of Giocare il sogno, filmare il gioco (1990), a format by Ottavio Rosati for Rai3 (Italy) that realizes in 1991 the Jacob Levi Moreno experiment of Le Psychodrame (1956) filmed by Roberto Rossellini in 1956 in France.

Ottavio Rosati directs the first psychodramas held on italian theaters. Both starting from plays by the Nobel Prize Luigi Pirandello's: "Questa sera si recita a soggetto" (Tonight we improvise) and "Ciascuno a suo modo" (Each one in his own way). Starring Zerka T. Moreno, wife and collaborator of Jacob Levi Moreno the father of psychodrama. Both with the collaboration of the Americanist Fernanda Pivano. The first (1983) for Teatro Stabile di Roma at Flaiano Theatre, with the participation of actors from the Living Theater. The second (1986) at Carignano Theater for Teatro Stabile di Torino, starring the Nobel Prize, Dario Fo who gives his voice to Jacob Levi Moreno. In Turin, Zerka Toeman Moreno performs the strange role of "La Moreno (che tutti sanno chi è)" and directs the psychodrama of Pier Luigi Pirandello, nephew of Luigi Pirandello and son of the painter Fausto Pirandello. The sociodrama about "Ciascuno a suo modo" triggers an organizational conflict and a social scandal similar to those that Pirandello imagined in his comedy set in the city of Turin. When the event's funding is in danger of being blocked by financial blackmail, Rosati goes to Naples and takes to Turin a Pazzariello, an advertising auctioneer who runs with his band through the streets of the city, denouncing the scandal. It is a winning turning point. Fifteen years later, Rosati will perform Fantasmi al Valle (2012) the socioplay of the third play of the Pirandello's trilogy: "Six Characters in Search of an Author". The magazine "Atti dello psicodramma" dedicates an issue to the event. This spin-off begins in 2002 in Sicily produced by the Teatro Stabile di Catania with Leo Gullotta in the role of Pirandello and will be concluded in 2012 at the Teatro Valle di Roma where in 1921 happened the stormy premiere of Six characters.

Maria Carla narrates to the group the traumatic experience of the incident that caused for years grave problems of movement to her daughter. In the second part of the psicoplay she elaborates her need to be free.

Alvaro feels guilty because once as a child he gave a beggar a glass of lemonade. He always thought that the glass had been poisoned and that this caused his father's death. The catharsis of this ghost frees a great emotion.

A young actor declares his sadness about the impossible search for truth in theater and life but the actress Rosalia Maggio enters in the role of a loving mother and conquest the smile of the boy.

A boy enacts, with the help of dancers and actresses, a dream where he is the King of an Harem and receives the visit of Marilyn Monroe. Rosalia Maggio, improvising the role of the First Lady of the Harem, creates a masterpiece of comedy.