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)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $3.32

  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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  Paperback
  1994

  $26.02

  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.