Turrini's first major play, published 1973. A young worker takes his new girlfriend on their first date. The couple arrives at a junkyard in his homemade sports car. The young man takes out his aggressions on rats, and teaches his girlfriend how to handle a rifle. In an attempt to overcome their feelings of estrangement and pretence the two slowly remove all the trappings of civilization--false eyelashes, false teeth, hairpieces, cosmetics, money, and finally clothes. Naked, they engage in an ecstatic and passionate dance in the midst of the junk. At the end they are shot by two passing rat hunters. Turrini combines the old German tradition of naturalist social drama with the antiestablishment sentiments portrayed in such youth-cult films as Easy Rider. Written in dialect, Turrini's play is out to shock the bourgeois audience and to unmask what the playwright considers the repressive capitalism of the 1970s.
