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Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Student Editions
'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 touch. And ...Show more
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo; Gavin Richards (adapted by)
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Classics
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 ...Show more
Dario Fo - Plays One - Mistero Buffo/Accidental Death of an Anarchist/Trumpets and Raspberries/The Virtuous Burglar/One Was Nude/ One More Tails by Dario Fo
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Contemporary Dramatists
Mistero Buffo, or The Comic Mysteries, is based on research into mediaeval mystery plays; The Accidental Death of an Anarchist concerns the "accidental" (or not) death of an anarchist railwork who "fell" (or was pushed) to his death from a police headquarters window in 1969; Trumpets and Raspberries is ...Show more
Fo Plays: v. 2: "Can't Pay? Won't Pay!"," Elizabeth", "The Open Couple" "An Ordinary Day" by Dario Fo
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Contemporary Dramatists
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, Fin ...Show more
The Pope's Daughter by Dario Fo
Category: Fiction
Lucrezia Borgia is one of the most vilified figures in modern history. Daughter of the notorious pope, she was twice betrothed before the age of 11 and thrice married, and according to rumours had several lovers, including perhaps her own brother and father. Painted by turns as murderous, incestuous fem ...Show more
Woman Alone and Other Plays by FO DARIO FRANCA RAME
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Twenty monologues for women Twenty monologues in this volume which range from the deeply serious to the extravagantly comic and accessible to a wide range of audiences"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, ...Show more
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