WE WERE THERE, I COULD SAY MORE and VICTIM are now available in new Italian translations. Perusal scripts can be downloaded from the play summary pages. All three plays are translated by Paolo Casiddu*.
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I COULD SAY MORE
“Much has been written about the ‘invisible’ warrior generation of gay men who watched half their friends die from AIDS and are now well into midlife, aged out of the clubs and bars, battling loneliness and depression. This is one of the few plays I have seen that dares to broach this complex subject.”
— GAY CITY NEWS
WE WERE THERE
“Personal and intense…[Blasius’] delineation of his characters is terrific… The portraits of Douglas and Jean are very finely drawn, and as played by Robert Gomes and Ken Mason they are attractive, endearing, and beautifully flawed human beings.”
— OFF-OFF-BROADWAY REVIEW
VICTIM
“The idea for the play started after Blasius found out that a man who had a bit part in William Friedkin’s movie “The Exorcist” subsequently became a convicted killer who had confessed to a series of murders of gay men. These killings, in which men were dismembered, put in trash bags and tossed in the Hudson River, helped inspire the film “Cruising,” also directed by William Friedkin.”
— PLAYBILL.COM
*Paolo Casiddu was born and raised in Sassari, Italy, where he graduated in Foreign Languages in 1996. Since 1978, barely five years old, he has been in successive steps an actor, a director of his own-founded company “Gabbia di Matti”, a translator and a writer himself of eight between full-length and one-act plays. In 2015 he received an honorable mention in the “Giampiero Cubeddu” prize for Sardinian drama. He is a translator from English, French, Spanish and Portuguese and in addition to Chuck Blasius’ plays, he is also the Italian translator for Doric Wilson, Jason Wells, Theresa Rebeck, Dan Israely, Gustavo Ott, Jack Sharrar and Manuel Calzada Pérez. He has also translated, among others, works by Jules Feiffer, Neil Simon, Arthur Kopit, Ronald Harwood, Simon Stephens, Terrence McNally, Tom Topor and Eugène Labiche.