Plays:

Plays: "Can't Pay? Won't Pay!"," Elizabeth", The "Open Couple" an "Ordinary Day" (Methuen Modern Plays)

by Dario Fo (Author), Dario Fo (Author), Stuart Hood (Introduction)

Synopsis

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.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 324
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 14 Mar 1994

ISBN 10: 0413680207
ISBN 13: 9780413680204

Author Bio
A popular and controversial playwright, actor and director, Dario Fo has earned international acclaim for his political satires and farces, and has led the field in political satire in Europe for over thirty years. His best known plays include Accidental Death of an Anarchist, We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!, and Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997 for emulating the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden.