We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! and Other Plays
We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! and Other Plays

Author: Dario Fo

Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781559361828

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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 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: We Won't Pay We Won't Pay Elizabeth Archangels Don't Play Pinball About Face

We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!
We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!

Author: Dario Fo

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780573627743

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Dario Fo, one of Italy's foremost playwrights, is a rarity- a Marxist with a sense of humor. This hilarious farce, a success Off Broadway and across the U.S., is set in motion when a housewife comes home with groceries she has swiped as part of a spontaneous community action where 300 women did the same. In her effort to keep her secret from her husband, she hides some of the groceries under her best friend's raincoat. Her husband and his friend the accomplice's husband notice the bulge, of course; but they believe the explanation that the accomplice is pregnant! Hilarity is piled upon hilarity as the characters try to extricate themselves from the mess they have gotten into. Eventually, they all unite to support the spontaneous resistance to eviction in their housing project.

Dario Fo
Dario Fo

Author: Tony Mitchell

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-01-08

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1408148633

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The first and only full-length critical study of Dario Fo, the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner This book, now extensively rewritten and updated, remains the only full-length critical study to cover various phases of Dario Fo's theatrical career. It looks at Fo's political influences and also the influence on his work of various theatrical motifs, including the great clown traditions which stretch back to the middle ages. The political work of Dario Fo and his wife/collaborator Franca Rame is charted from the 1960s up to the present to give the reader clear insight into this playwright/performer's unique literary and theatrical strengths. Each of Fo's plays and productions is discussed at length and the author has included an extensive and updated bibliography which includes full production details, quotes and writings about Fo. Always a popular performer in his native Italy, Fo has been one of the world's most performed dramatists. In the author's words: he is the "people's court jester".

The Fool in European Theatre
The Fool in European Theatre

Author: T. Prentki

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-11-22

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0230357504

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Why is folly essential to the functioning of a healthy society? Why is theatre a natural home for madness? The answers take the reader on a journey embracing Shakespeare and Jonson, Brecht and Beckett, Büchner and Boal. From Falstaff to Fo via Figaro, this study examines the art of telling truth to power and surviving long enough to have a laugh.

The Award and Other Plays
The Award and Other Plays

Author: Warren Manzi

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9780573626869

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When these one-acts were produced Off Broadway in New York, they were hailed as plays that bend your perceptions of theatre. In One for the Money, a man walks in asking the audience for donations. What does he really want? Moroccan Travel Guide is a visceral show and tells of a journey that begins in a boat in a dark cave. In The Queen of the Parting Shot, a woman desperately searches for an old memory. A runner-up contestant in The Audition is asked to give his second-prize performance. In the

Set the Stage!
Set the Stage!

Author: Nicoletta Marini-Maio

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2008-12-16

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 0300109857

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Set the Stage! is a collection of essays on teaching Italian language, literature, and culture through theater. From theoretical background to course models, this book provides all the resources that teachers and students need to incorporate the rich and abundant Italian theater tradition into the curriculum. Features of the book include ? the ?Director's Handbook,” a comprehensive guide with detailed instructions for every step of the process, from choosing a text to the final performance, ? an exclusive interview with Nobel laureate Dario Fo, ? a foreword by prize-winning author Dacia Maraini.

Beyond Shakespeare
Beyond Shakespeare

Author: Iris H. Tuan

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-07-25

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9811994021

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With joy and grace to accompany the readers to have the translocal tour to visit about thirty-seven works, this monograph applies the academic critical theories of Performance Studies, Film Studies, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and Visual Culture, to interpreting the special selection works. The focus and common theme are on race, body, and class. With the background of COVID-19 since 2019 up to the present, the book offers the readers with the remarkable insight of human beings’ accumulated wisdom and experiences in surviving with the dreadful diseases like the plagues in Shakespeare’s time. After the supreme reading, may the global readers in the world acquire the knowledge and power to live in sustainability with education and entertainment of films, performances, and online streaming Netflix TV dramas.