Fo Plays: v. 2: "Can't Pay? Won't Pay!"," Elizabeth", "The Open Couple" "An Ordinary Day"
Author(s): Dario Fo
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.
General Information
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- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : Methuen Drama
- : 0.27
- : 13 March 1994
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Dario Fo
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 852.914
- : 320
More About The Product
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."
Can't Pay? Won't Pay!; Elizabeth; The Open Couple; An Ordinary Day
