Dario Fo : revolutionary theatre
Annotation For three decades Dario Fo has been the world's most performed living playwright & Europe's leading radical dramatist. He was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 71 for his contribution as a writer, actor & mime artist over half a century, despite being reviled by governments, arrested for obscenity & condemned by the Vatican for blasphemy. His plays have been translated into numerous languages & performed in many countries around the world. In the first political biography of Dario Fo, Tom Behan traces Fo's life an & d work from his beginnings in cabaret & mime in postwar Italy & his early writings for TV & radio, to the development of his political ideas & the influence of his plays outside Italy, in particular in the English-speaking world. Behan broadens his study to examine the importance of Fo's work to the working class & to explore the relationship between mass left wing movements & Fo's activities as playwright & performer
eBook, English, 2000
Pluto Press, London, 2000