Giovanni Testori’s dramatic texts represent a new attempt in the Italian theatre that is placed within the framework of the area of the pirandelliene themes, but at the same time it is an Endeavour to get out of it. They have an environment and popular characters in which prefigures the scenic space as a possible meeting place of the ideological schemes, subjects and themes with psychological and religious research presented in a mysterious and timeless dimension. Characters’ passion and tragic vitality represent author’s anxiety. The tragedies “L’Ambleto”, “Macbetto” and “Edipus” reveal, explicitly, a scandalous dimension, that is out of time, resorting to a magmatic, multidialectal language, which is very expressive, but goes as far as blasphemy. On the other hand, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi finds his subjects in the chronicle, transforming them into explosive parables. The author-director, born in Naples, emphasizes the psychological aspects using a brutal, anti-literary language that is often rich in violent and vulgar words. All his “unhappy” dramas comprise numberless allusions in which one can recognize suggestions from Eduardo de Filippo’s theatre, ideas that highlight a contradictory feeling – love and hate. The stories presented by Patroni Griffi have always been annotation stories, fixed on characters that have in common a characteristic of sudden marginalization, of accepted life that is sometimes rejected.