"Requiem and Other Plays" collects six works by Elena Matacena, written and staged between 1996 and 2012, and originally penned under the pseudonym of Eva Maria Cantor. It is a book for dreamers, and for all the lovers of history, literature and anthropology. It is about mysterious presences and extreme - and therefore misunderstood - characters. The collection contains "Jakob Kreuzberg's Manuscript", which has been translated and published in Italian, French and Polish and is now deposited in the Yad Vashem Archive in Jerusalem. The publication is enriched with Maria Rosaria Omaggio's performance of the monologue "Requiem", included in the digital version and available online for the buyers of the print version.