“My joy and my heart,” explains Eduardo De Filippo, is a common expression with which my compatriots ironically define a situation where someone plays a nasty joke on someone or makes a clever move, usually unexpected, to the detriment of someone close, hypocritically taking advantage of blood ties. The new work of Eduardo De Filippo is a comedy about cunning, about family intrigue. The author unfolds it with brilliant stagecraft, grace, sincere human warmth and vivid expressiveness, which have placed his name among the leading Italian playwrights. And as in all Eduardo's comedies, this one also contains a crafty lesson: cunning uses humanity, and humanity to to resist it, he can use even greater cunning.