comedy
One was Nude and One wore Tails by Dario Fo
RevSocialist اش... — Thu, 08/19/2010 - 11:34
This short play (32pgs) by Italian marxist Dario Fo is a satiric take on the role that clothes play in a capitalist, classist society. It makes the point that the respect and deference that is shown to people who simply wear certain types of clothes is an absurd and illogical situation, just another reason why capitalism needs to be smashed! Fo also points out the vast difference in attitude that the police will adopt in regard to someone dressed like a worker, and someone who has on a suit, even if it is a worker in a suit or a rich man in workers' clothes!
Johan Padan and the "Discovery" of the Americas by Dario Fo
RevSocialist اش... — Fri, 04/30/2010 - 15:53
This play (109pg) by Dario Fo was written in the unconventional style which Fo himself first made popular, i.e. "narrative theatre" (teatro di narrazione). In such narrative plays, there is only one person, and there is no action or dress or background or anything like that, but just a narrator-actor telling a story, very similar to the popular storytelling which influenced Fo's style so much.
The Pope and the Witch by Dario Fo
RevSocialist اش... — Sun, 03/28/2010 - 12:52
This play (111pg), "The Pope and the Witch," of leftist Italian playwright Dario Fo, mocks the pope and the vatican as a whole, and is, as with all of Fo's plays, hilarious.
The Open Couple by Dario Fo and Franca Rame
RevSocialist اش... — Fri, 01/08/2010 - 11:14
As with some of Dario Fo's plays this one, The Open Couple, was written with his wife, fellow leftist Franca Rame. In the original productions of this play Fo played the "Man" and Rame played the "Woman." This play is much shorter than the previous plays I have posted by Dario Fo, it was written in 1983 and varies from the previous plays in that it does not focus as much on working class struggle, rather it focuses it's attention on the issues of sexism and marriage.
Can't Pay? Won't Pay! - Dario Fo
RevSocialist اش... — Fri, 01/08/2010 - 08:38
This is my favorite play of Dario Fo's (that I have read anyway). As with all of Fo's plays it is very comical, yet the theme of the play is only reinforced by this not cheapened. Since Fo's is a socialist most of his plays have elements of socialist ideology in them, but Can't Pay, Won't Pay, in my opinion carries a much more explicitly socialist message than most of Fo's plays.
The Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo
RevSocialist اش... — Fri, 01/08/2010 - 08:04
It gives me great pleasure to introduce Dario Fo (1926-), an Italian radical leftist playwright, and the best playwright I have ever read by far. Although you may be wary of political theater, or as Fo put it "Political theater has become a kind of byword for boring theater, conceited theater, pedantic theater, mechanical theater, a non-enjoyable theater," Dario Fo's plays are one of a kind. What do I mean by that?
