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Dario Fo & Franca Rame - Theatre, Politics, Life (Hardcover)
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Dario Fo & Franca Rame - Theatre, Politics, Life (Hardcover)
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Dario Fo (1926-2016), actor, playwright, theatre director, stage
designer, political activist, artist and author who, having
attained international fame in theatre, produced the first of his
six novels at the age of 88 - was there any limit to his versatile
genius? He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997, and
works such as Accidental Death of an Anarchist or Can't Pay? Won't
Pay secured his reputation as the outstanding political playwright
of his age. Unlike other writers of a similar mind, Fo's chosen
genre was farce, so his drama is a uniquely engaging mixture of
laughter and anger. In 1954 he married Franca Rame (1929-2013), a
member of a family-company of touring players. The personal and
professional partnership of the two over sixty years was probably
unique in theatre history. Her inherited, instinctive knowledge of
stagecraft was invaluable to him, but although she was always
recognised as an actor of considerable talent, her contribution to
the writing of the plays was long undervalued. With the emergence
of the feminist movement she increasingly asserted herself, notably
with a series of one-woman works she wrote and performed. She
became one of Italy's and Europe's leading feminist campaigners,
and as such a target for right-wing terrorist groups. In 1973, she
was kidnapped and raped by neo-Fascist thugs. Although the subjects
of their plays, with their fearless attacks on corruption and
satire of Popes and politicians, were often taken from the
headlines of the day, their theatre was deeply rooted in theatrical
tradition. The Nobel Prize citation stated that Fo 'emulated the
jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the
dignity of the downtrodden', but this political campaigning came at
a cost. The couple's militant reputation meant that they were for
many years barred from Italian television and banned from entering
the USA, but their plays were staged from London to Tokyo and they
themselves were acclaimed wherever they toured. Joseph Farrell
translated many of their works and knew Dario and Franca well. His
biography is a complete account of the various activities and
multifaceted lives of two extraordinary individuals.
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