Drama. New to SPD from translation and contemporary literature publisher Xenos Books. EMERGENCY EXIT(original title: Uscita di emergenza) won Italy's IDI Award for Best Play; this is the equivalent of the American Tony. It also was named Best Play by the Italian Association of Theater Critics. The Xenos Books edition of this work is the play's first translation into English.The action in EMERGENCY EXIT, a two-act play, takes place in a place where there should be no action. Two squatters in an abandoned house in Naples wage psychological war on one another; the house, shaken by earthquakes, teeters on the brink of collapse. Translated from the Italian by Anthony Molino with Jane House.