The name "Beatrice" is an allusion to the lady of the heart of the author of "Divine Comedy" Dante Alighieri, who was called Beatrice Portinari and who was for him a symbol of purity, physical and mental. However, Dante's beloved lived in the 13th century, and since then the standards of beauty and the role of women in society have changed radically. Would the great Italian poet like modern Beatrice?
In his play, the author contrasts modern "Beatrice" with Dante's beloved to demonstrate the degradation of the moral values of today's society.
In terms of its structure, the play "Beatrice" is a collection of eight monologues interspersed with poems, one way or another related to the monologues or those that have no relation to them at all. All monologues belong to women of completely different social status, age and character: a lonely nun, a woman exhausted by anxiety for her relatives, a careerist at the top of her professional rise, a cruel teenage girl, an old lonely woman in a home for the elderly, a woman- ghoul. An unstoppable flow of monologues consists of witty statements, love aspirations, undisguised pride, sexual dreams, unexpected confessions, intimate secrets, ruthless judgments.
