It was first staged on December 5, 1970, in Varese, Italy. An English translation was published by Suzanne Cowan in Theater Magazine in 1979, and led to a stage adaptation by Richard Nelson, directed by Doug Wager, opening at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C on February 9, 1984.
There was a Channel 4 television adaptation in the 1980s (exact date required) which mixed the original Italian setting with anachronistic references to Thatcher's Britain.
In 2003, a new translation by Simon Nye was performed at the Donmar Warehouse theatre, London, starring Rhys Ifans.