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1. Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas by Dario Fo | |
Paperback: 128
Pages
(2001-04-27)
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Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas |
2. Accidental Death of an Anarchist: Methuen Student Edition (Methuen Drama) by Dario Fo | |
Paperback: 176
Pages
(2004-04-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Student edition of Fo's subversive drama based on a true-life story. A prisoner falls from a window at police headquarters, leading to a chain of events in which the judicial and police corruption of 1970s Italy is thrown into relief. Includes text, notes, commentary and background. Dario Fo was born in 1926. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997, he is a political activist and national hero, as well as Italy's most famous living playwright. Customer Reviews (6)
Marxism without Marx
A Play Not Performed ENOUGH
A bitingly funny satire This outrageous comedy opens with a character known as the "Maniac" being brought to a police station.It's a very "metatheatrical" piece; Fo warps theatrical conventions and makes jokes in a way that reminds me a bit of Luigi Pirandello's "Six Characters in Search of an Author."There are some really funny scenes, but a very serious vein still runs throughout the piece. Ultimately, this is a thought-provoking piece about truth.What is the true story, and how do you discover it?Fo's satiric wit explores police brutality as well as the relationships among the police, the media, and the political establishment.I recommend this piece by the Nobel Prize winning Fo to all with an interest in 20th century drama and/or political activism.
One of the best!
Way Too Much Zen I thought that the theme of the play was that the police get overly zealous in trying to pin a crime on a particular person once the police have made up their collective minds who they think should have committed the crime, as the defense allegations in the famous O.J. murder case seemed well founded when the methods of the L.A.P.D. were subject to the scrutiny of attorneys who are aware of how these things are usually done.In the case of the actual event upon which the Accidental Death of the Anarchist was based, the police techniques were subject to an official investigation, and the play was written as on ongoing farce which kept Italy informed as more facts came to light.The play may be way beyond the Zen of any audience, but if people think that something about the nature of the police is revealed in it, I don't think that those people should be considered as paranoid as they ought to be.Anyone who loses sleep over this kind of thing hasn't adjusted well to modern society, so they can probably find a shrink to give them pills that will put them to sleep, but that is a different topic, but not much different, really. ... Read more |
3. Fo Plays: 1: Mistero Buffo; Accidental Death…; Trumpets and Raspberries; Virtuous Burglar; One Was Nude… (Methuen Contemporary Dramatists) by Dario Fo, Stuart Hood | |
Paperback: 400
Pages
(1992-03-09)
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4. We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! And Other Works: The Collected Plays of Dario Fo, Volume One by Dario Fo | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(2000-05-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description In the words of his translator, Ron Jenkins: "The Nobel committee's decision to honor Fo as a master of literature is a historic tribute to the theatre, which is still viewed by many as literature's bastard child; it is also the first time that the Nobel for the literary arts has been awarded to an actor. This courageous and controversial choice indirectly expands the modern definition of literature to include the power of the spoken word." Volume One includes: Customer Reviews (4)
Fo's Journey
A most deserved Nobel Prize I found on this website a review claiming that "Fo supports the WTC attackers". The author of that review should have gone a little deeper in reading the facts, just to discover that the intended message of the reported statement was quite opposite to the alleged one. The original text that includes the statement can be found at ...(in Italian). I believe the misunderstanding is far from casual. Nowadays the Italian Prime Minister controls almost every information medium. He has restored most of the political and cultural conditions that Italy was forced to "enjoy" between 1922 and 1943. It has become very hard for dissenting voices to reach a wide audience without having their messages distorted on the way. The "Corriere della Sera" excerpt from Dario and Franca's email on the 9/11 tragedy is just one more example of how easy it is to manipulate the truth by simply reporting minimal parts of it.
Theatre in Action Fo is known for his use of the Italian tradition of commedia dell'arte. This tradition allows Fo to exploit taboo subjects in highly comic situations.Like the commedia dell'arte tradition, Fo's humor is bawdy and over the top. It is tremendously absurd and equally as witty. Dario Fo won the Nobel Prize for Literature. We Can't Pay! We Won't Pay!, Accidental Death of an Anarchist and Ordinary Couple are my favorite works by Dario Fo.
Fo supports the WTC attackers "The great speculators wallow in an economy that every year kills tens of millions of people with poverty -- so what is 20,000 dead in New York?" The United States has many problems with its foreign policy, which have been the subject of vigorous debate. Not one of those weaknesses is justification for 6,000 people of every imaginable type being chopped up into little bits and incinerated by the equivalent of a low-radiation nuclear attack without anyone so much as pulling a fire alarm. Fo and his wife are worse here than the attackers themselves. Maybe the attackers had no idea what the damage they would cause would really be like. Maybe, if they could have jumped forward in time 24 hours and seen the results, they would have repented. They come from a vastly different culture and may have just seen things differently than we see them. But Fo and Rame are westerners who saw the devastation on TV before writing this. Censoring Fo and his wife would wrong, but I hope others out there will join me in hoping that Dante actually has a ghost, and that Dante's will be in charge of managing their stay in Hell. ... Read more |
5. My First Seven Years (Plus a Few More): A Memoir by Dario Fo | |
Hardcover: 256
Pages
(2006-10-03)
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Outstanding view of human folies and the comical aspect of history |
6. File on Fo (Writer-Files) | |
Paperback: 96
Pages
(1989-09)
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7. Mistero Buffo: The Collected Plays of Dario Fo, Volume 2 by Dario Fo, Ron Jenkins | |
Paperback: 192
Pages
(2005-12-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Mistero Buffo is Dario Fo’s one-man tour de force, in which he creates his own subversive version of Biblical stories. Infused with the rhythmic drive of a jazz improvisation, the immediacy of a newspaper headline, and the epic scope of a historical novel, Fo and his wife/collaborator Franca Rame have performed Mistero Buffo throughout the world to over 10 million people. One of the major theatrical artists of the twentieth century, Italy’s Dario Fo was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. Ron Jenkins’ translations of Dario Fo have been performed across the country. He is the theater department chair at Wesleyan University. Customer Reviews (2)
Irreverent, Playful and Imaginative Performance Pieces "Mistero Buffo" draws on the popular and comic tradition of the medieval mystery plays, as well as the tradition of the so-called "jongleur", or traveling comic and mime, whose performances provided a subversive counterpoint to the authority of Church, Monarchy and Lord. As the jongleur in Fo's piece, "The Birth of the Jongleur," reminds his audience: "I leap and pirouette, and make you laugh. I make fun of those in power, and I show you how puffed up and conceited are the bigshots who go around making wars in which we are the ones who get slaughtered. I reveal them for what they are. I pull out the plug, and . . . pssss . . .they deflate." Written and originally performed by Fo himself, "Mistero Buffo" consists of a series of pieces involving mime, improvisation and performance art. The texts are fiercely anti-Church, anti-materialist and anti-authority, but they are written with a comic verve and playful sensibility that mark Dario Fo as a remarkably unique writer, director, and performer. Drawing on religious traditions, the pieces include Fo's modern take on Biblical stories entitled "Slaughter of the Innocents," "Marriage at Cana" and "Resurrection of Lazarus," as well as a series of short dialogues (entitled "Passion Plays") where Fo adumbrates the death of Christ as experienced by Mary. All of these pieces border on the blasphemous, subverting conventional pieties and unthinking reverence for established religion and replacing them with a kind of popular re-writing of Christianity, a revision which glorifies the common man at the expense of those in power. Not surprisingly, "Mistero Buffo," like most of Fo's texts and performances, is controversial and provocative. It is also, however, a short text worth reading for an insightful sampling of one of Italy's most remarkable literary and theatrical geniuses.
Irreverent, Playful and Imaginative Performance Pieces "Mistero Buffo" draws on the popular and comic tradition of the medieval mystery plays, as well as the tradition of the so-called "jongleur", or traveling comic and mime, whose performances provided a subversive counterpoint to the authority of Church, Monarchy and Lord.As the jongleur in Fo's piece, "The Birth of the Jongleur", reminds his audience:"I leap and pirouette, and make you laugh.I make fun of those in power, and I show you how puffed up and conceited are the bigshots who go around making wars in which we are the ones who get slaughtered.I reveal them for what they are.I pull out the plug, and . . . pssss . . .they deflate." Written and originally performed by Fo himself, "Mistero Buffo" consists of a series of pieces involving mime, improvisation and performance art.The texts are fiercely anti-Church, anti-materialist and anti-authority, but they are written with a comic verve and playful sensibility that mark Dario Fo as a remarkably unique writer, director, and performer.Drawing on religious traditions, the pieces include Fo's modern take on Biblical stories entitled "Slaughter of the Innocents", "Marriage at Cana" and "Resurrection of Lazarus", as well as a series of short dialogues (entitled "Passion Plays") where Fo adumbrates the death of Christ as experienced by Mary.All of these pieces border on the blasphemous, subverting conventional pieties and unthinking reverence for established religion and replacing them with a kind of popular re-writing of Christianity, a revision which glorifies the common man at the expense of those in power.Not surprisingly, "Mistero Buffo", like most of Fo's texts and performances, is controversial and provocative.It is also, however, a short text worth reading for an insightful sampling of one of Italy's most remarkable literary and theatrical geniuses. ... Read more |
8. Morte accidentale di un anarchico by Dario Fo | |
Paperback: 177
Pages
(1997-12-15)
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9. The Tricks of the Trade (Theatre Arts (Routledge Paperback)) by Dario Fo | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(1991-05-23)
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A freeing work from a brilliant actor/scholar.
Donald Sutherland praised this book on Charlie Rose 9/10/98 That's good enoughfor me. I plan to buy it for my daughter - a fledgling Commedia artist. ... Read more |
10. Dario Fo: Stage, Text, and Tradition | |
Hardcover: 232
Pages
(2000-11-29)
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Editorial Review Product Description The contributors, all of whom either have previously published on Foor have worked with him, are the major Dario Fo scholars of threecontinents. Going beyond the Marxist criticism of the 1970s and 1980s,the editors and contributors try to establish an appropriate languagein which to debate Fo's theater. They seek to identify the core ofFo's work, the material that will be of lasting value. This involveslocating Fo in history, examining the nature of his developmentthrough successive phases, incorporating his politics into a widerframework of radical dissent, and setting his theatrical achievementsin a context and a tradition. The essays cover every aspect of Dario Fo: as actor, playwright,performer, and songwriter. They also provide the historical backgroundof Fo's theater, as well as an in-depth analyses of specific works andthe contribution of Franca Rame. Also included is original artwork byFo, including vignettes from his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Customer Reviews (1)
The Best Intro to Dario Fo |
11. Dario Fo by Dario Fo, Tony Mitchell | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(2000-09-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description The works of Fo number among the world's most performed plays. Tony Mitchell chronicles Fo's early theatrical and political development from the revue sketches and broad faces of the early 1950s to his more commercial hits of the 1960s. He explores Fo's collaborations with his wife, the actress Franca Rame, and their great international successes of key work of the 1970s and 1980s (including Mistero Buffo, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Can't Pay? Won't Pay!,Female Parts, Trumpets and Raspberries, The Open Couple, Elizabeth, and The Pope and the Witch). People's Court Jester now includes the more recent political and theatrical work of the Fos in the 1990s, leading up to the awarding of the Nobel prize. This is a study of the myriad theatrical styles and genres which Fo employs in his stage work: his embodiment of the guillare or jester tradition; his borrowings from the commedia dell'arte; his use of techniques from circus, burlesque, satire, and Bertolt Brecht's Epic Theatre; his views on history, popular music, and storytelling. Mitchell also provides insight on translating Fo into English and includes an extensive chronology, bibliography, and production history of major events in Fo's long and colorful career. Dario Fo: People's Court Jester—here revised for the third time—remains the first and only full-length study in English of the work of Dario Fo, the controversial Italian playwright, actor, director, songwriter, and political activist who received the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature. |
12. Dario Fo: Revolutionary Theatre by Tom Behan | |
Hardcover: 160
Pages
(2000-01-01)
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13. Fo Plays: 2: Can't Pay? Won't Pay!, Elizabeth, The Open Couple, and An Ordinary Day (Methuen World Classics) (v. 2) by Dario Fo | |
Paperback: 285
Pages
(2004-04-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Dario Fo "gives even the wildest gags a political flavor."—Guardian Can't Pay? Won't Pay!: "This is no gloomy agitprop. Fo-faced farce wears a broad smile and proceeds at breathtaking speed."—Financial Times Elizabeth: "Portrays our last Tudor monarch in Fo's characteristically rollicking vein ... A triumph for Gillian Hanna as a translator."—Financial Times The Open Couple and An Ordinary Day, written with Franca Rame, deal wittily with the fate of women in a society shaped by men. Customer Reviews (2)
A Pleasant Surprise This is a collection of four plays.The first one is rather political in nature and might seem more enjoyable with a better knowledge of contemporary Italian economics.However, the absurdity comes through very clearly.The comedy comes through as well.I came away with a pretty good grasp of the author's view of the Italian economic problems (as well as that of the European Economic Community).However, this leftist view point left me feeling that there is another side to the story.That, of course, is my problem and not the author's shortcoming. The second play is an interesting and enjoyable look at Queen Elizabeth I done in great comedy and absurdity.There is a main character named Grosslady who steals the show.She speaks a sort of Esperanto slang that is absolutely hilarious.There is an accompanying translation in the back of the play to help the reader understand her "language".I normally dislike anything that detracts from the flow of the book.However, I enjoyed the availability of the translation to help me follow the flow of the book.At the same time, I made sure I read the actual lines that Grosslady has in the play because it is such a brilliant comedic concoction.For example, her word for England is "Angleterror".This was all brilliantly translated by Gillian Hanna. The last two plays are interesting examinations of human relationships and interdependence.They continue in the comedy of the absurd. Perhaps the best recommendation I can give this collection is that I am now looking to read more of Dario Fo's works.Give this one a try!
humorous more than anything else |
14. Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Artful Laughter by Ron Jenkins | |
Hardcover: 176
Pages
(2001-10-15)
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15. A Woman Alone & Other Plays (Methuen Modern Plays) by Dario Fo, Franca Rame | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(2008-09-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description "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, even at ourselves."-Franca Rame "Escaping domestic servitude to enjoy free love; the assault on body and spirit of a gang rape; the joys and vicissitudes of a day and a night on the razzle: in the skillful hands of Gillian Hanna, who also translates Franca Rame and Daria Fo's sparkling plays, this becomes the dramatic stuff of women's lives."-Ann McFerran, Time Out Edited by Stuart Hood and translated by: Gillian Hanna, who performed a selection of pieces to great critical acclaim at the Half Moon Theatre, London in 1989; Ed Emery, political activist and translator of Fo's Mistero Buffo; and Christopher Cairns, Italianist and Reader in Italian Drama, at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth. Customer Reviews (1)
A Woman Alone And Other Plays- Franca Rame and Dario Fo |
16. Commedie Di Dario Fo Volume 8 (Italian Edition) by Dario Fo | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(1997-01-01)
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17. The Peasants' Bible and the Story of the Tiger by Dario Fo | |
Paperback: 192
Pages
(2005-09-13)
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entertaining |
18. Dario Fo: Theater, Politik, Kultur : Dissertation (German Edition) by Birgid Gysi | |
Turtleback: 242
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(2000)
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19. Il gesto, la parola, l'azione: Poetica, drammaturgia e storia dei monologhi di Dario Fo (Biblioteca teatrale) (Italian Edition) by Marisa Pizza | |
Paperback: 470
Pages
(1996)
Isbn: 888319005X Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
20. Federico Fellini & Dario Fo: Disegni geniali (Italian Edition) by Federico Fellini | |
Paperback: 222
Pages
(1999)
Isbn: 8820213338 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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