Fiori d'arancio

The one-act idyll unfolds in a rustic schoolroom where a cantankerous director, a sleepy parish priest, a pedantic teacher and a troupe of schoolgirls enact the rituals of village education. Stage directions emphasize worn furnishings, a motionless official clock and an open balcony, while exchanges reveal the director's bitterness about compulsory instruction, the priest's indulgent interventions and the teacher's anxious duty. The play balances gentle satire and humane observation, contrasting bureaucratic authority and small‑town customs with youthful energy, and employs rhythmic entrances, set detail and comic timing to probe local attitudes toward schooling and tradition.