Synopses & Reviews
Dario Fo is Italy's leading contemporary playwright and performer, renowned throughout the world for his dazzling radical satires
Can't Pay Won't Pay is set in Milan, but "the problems are desperately familiar…Fo-faced farce wears a broad smile and proceeds at breathtaking speed" (Michael Coveney, Financial Times); Elizabeth "It portrays our last Tudor monarch in Fo's characteristically rollicking vein…A triumph for Gillian Hanna as translator" (Marin Hoyle, Financial Times); The Open Couple and An Ordinary Day, written with Franca Rame, deal wittily with the fate of women in a society in which both the social system in which they live and its dominant ideology are shaped by men.
Synopsis
Dario Fo "gives even the wildest gags a political flavor."—Guardian
Can't Pay? Won't Pay!: "This is no gloomy agitprop. Fo-faced farce wears a broad smile and proceeds at breathtaking speed."—Financial Times
Elizabeth: "Portrays our last Tudor monarch in Fo's characteristically rollicking vein ... A triumph for Gillian Hanna as a translator."—Financial Times
The Open Couple and An Ordinary Day, written with Franca Rame, deal wittily with the fate of women in a society shaped by men.
Synopsis
Dario Fo"gives even the wildest gags a political flavor."-
GuardianCan't Pay? Won't Pay!: "This is no gloomy agitprop. Fo-faced farce wears a broad smile and proceeds at breathtaking speed."-Financial Times
Elizabeth: "Portrays our last Tudor monarch in Fo's characteristically rollicking vein ... A triumph for Gillian Hanna as a translator."-Financial Times
The Open Coupleand An Ordinary Day, written with Franca Rame, deal wittily with the fate of women in a society shaped by men.
About the Author
One of the major theatrical artists of the 20th century, Italy's Dario Fo, togther with Franca Rame, his wife and creative partner, have been creating a theatrical foray uniquely their own for more than fifty years. One of the world's most produced playwrights, Fo was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Table of Contents
1. Mistero Buffo / translated by Ed Emery. Accidental death of an anarchist / translated by Ed Emery. Trumpets and raspberries / translated by R.C. McAvoy and A.M. Giugni. The virtuous burglar / translated by Joe Farrell. One was nude and one wore tails / translated by Ed Emery -- 2. Can't pay? Won't pay? / translated by Lino Pertile. Elizabeth: almost by chance a woman / translated by Gillian Hanna. The open couple / written with Franca Rame ; translated by Stuart Hood. An ordinary day / written with Franca Rame ; translated by Joe Farrell.