Dario Fo
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Dario Fo (24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian actor-playwright, comedian, singer, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, painter and political campaigner of the Italian left-wing, recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. "Arguably the most widely performed contemporary playwright in world theatre", much of his dramatic work depends on improvisation and comprises the recovery of "illegitimate" forms of theatre, such as those performed by giullari (medieval strolling players) and, more famously, the ancient Italian style of commedia dell'arte.
Selected works
Note: These are the English names of the works.
- Archangels Don't Play Pinball (1959)
- He Had Two Pistols with White and Black Eyes (1960)
- He Who Steals a Foot is Lucky in Love (1961)
- Isabella, Three Tall Ships, and a Con Man(1961)
- Mistero Buffo (Comic Mystery, 1969)
- The Worker Knows 300 Words, the Boss 1000, That's Why He's the Boss (1969)
- Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970)
- Fedayin (1971)
- We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! (Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga!) (aka Can't Pay? Won't Pay!) (1974)
- Mama's Marijuana is the Best (1976)
- All House, Bed, and Church (1977)
- The Tale of a Tiger (1978)
- Trumpets and Raspberries (1981)
- The Open Couple (1983)
- Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman (1984)
- One was Nude and One wore Tails (1985)
- Abducting Diana (1986) - Adapted to English in 1996 by Stephen Stenning
- The Tricks of the Trade (Manuale minimo dell'attore) [1987] (1991)
- The Zeedonk and the Shoe (1988)
- The Pope and the Witch (1989)
- A Woman Alone (1991)
- Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas (1992)
- The Devil with Boobs (1997)
- The First Miracle of the Infant Jesus
- Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo
- About Face
- The Virtuous Burglar
English translations
A number of Fo's plays have been translated into the English language, including Abducting Diana and St Francis - The Holy Jester which is on a 2009 tour of southern England.
See also
