Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature In the words of his translator, Ron Jenkins: "The Nobel committee's decision to honor Fo as a master of literature is a historic tribute to the theatre, which is still viewed by many as literature's bastard child; it is also the first time that the Nobel for [...]
"Mistero Buffo" is Dario Fo's one-man tour de force, in which he creates his own subversive version of Biblical stories. Infused with the rhythmic drive of a jazz improvisation, the immediacy of a newspaper headline, and the epic scope of a historical novel, Fo and his wife/collaborator Franca Rame [...]
Brings together three major political plays, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Mistero Buffo and Trumpets and Raspberries, along with two previously unpublished short farces - The Virtuous Burglar and One was Nude and One Wore Tails.[...]
This collection of plays brings together a political farce, "Can't Pay? Won't Pay!", and "Elizabeth", a radical reinterpretation of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, along with "The Open Couple" and "An Ordinary Day", intimate one-act dramas written in collaboration with Fo's wife Franca Rame.[...]
In its first two years of production in Italy, Dario Fo's notorious Accidental Death of an Anarchist was seen by over half a million people. It has since been performed all over the world, and become a classic of twentieth-century drama. A sharp and hilarious satire on police corruption, it concerns[...]
"The pieces are comic, grotesque, on purpose. First of all because we women have been crying for two thousand years. So let's laugh now, even at ourselves."-Franca Rame "Escaping domestic servitude to enjoy free love; the assault on body and spirit of a gang rape; the joys and vicissitudes of a day [...]
The first and only full-length critical study of Dario Fo, the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner This book, now extensively rewritten and updated, remains the only full-length critical study to cover various phases of Dario Fo's theatrical career. It looks at Fo's political influences and also [...]
'The quality that makes Fo uniquely powerful ...[is] the ability to wring wild laughter out of insidious corruption' Guardian 'Simon Nye's witty translation updates and relocates the play ...suitably close to contemporary England. Fo is that rare thing, a far-left playwright with a popular, comic to[...]
Based on a true-life story, this play throws into relief the judicial and police corruption of 1970s Italy. Simon Nye's translation brings out the parallels with our situation in the 21st century.[...]
This study of the Italian Nobel playwright and master performer, Dario Fo, will be of interest to scholars and students of popular performance and contemporary European theatre. Dario Fo: Framing, Festival, and the Folkloric Imagination is an interdisciplinary study of Fo's use of framing techniques[...]
Nord-Italia, 1930-tallet. Boken er en skildring av forfatterens oppvekst i Valtravaglia, kalt Flaggermusenes by. I forfatterens barndomsskildring myldrer det av eventyrlige mennesker og mer eller mindre sannferdige hendelser.[...]
Dråplig fars i en akt av 1997 års nobelpristagare.
Att läsa Dario Fos självbiografi är som att vara åskådare till en av hans teateruppsättningar.
Scenen är Porto Valtravaglia vid Lago Maggiore i norra Italien, där han växte upp. Fladdermöss kallades de som arbetade natt i traktens glashyttor.
I denna hans he[...]
Dario Fo's och Franca Rames teater härstammar från den medeltida gycklartraditionen i Italien. Typiska drag i denna tradition är, förutom den burleska spelstilen, blandningen av myt och vardag och teaterns nära kontakt och dialog med publiken. Om sin teater har Dario Fo själv yttrat: "Jag arbe[...]