Lucrezia Borgia is one of the most vilified figures in modern history. The daughter of a notorious pope, she was twice betrothed before the age of eleven and thrice marriedone husband was forced to de
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
(Book). "Fo emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden." Nobel Prize Committee These fables to spark the imagination, challen
In its first two years of production, Dario Fo's controversial farce, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, was seen by over half a million people. It has since been performed all over the world, and beco
Another farce by Dario Fo, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature. Millionaire media boss Diane Forbes-McKaye is kidnapped--but this ruthless magnate proves more resourceful than her clumsy abd
A collection of five monologues based on Italian folklore is accompanied by "The Story of the Tiger" in which a soldier fighting Chiang Kai-shek's army is saved from starvation by a tiger.
A vividly imagined retelling of Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas is told through the voice of a last-minute conscript, who is eventually adopted by a tribe of Indians and helps them fight
Winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureIn 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 i
"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
