Dario Fo
Born: 1926-03-24 in Sangiano, Varese, Italy
Died: 2016-10-13
Known For: Writing
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dario Fo (born 24 March 1926) is an Italian satirist, playwright, theatre director, actor, composer and recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. His dramatic work employs comedic methods of the ancient Italian commedia dell'arte, a theatrical style popular with the working classes. Fo's works are characterised by criticisms of organised crime, political corruption, political murders, most of the Catholic Church doctrine and conflict in the Middle East. His plays often depend on improvisation, commedia dell'arte style. His plays, especially Mistero Buffo, have been translated into 30 languages and, when performed outside Italy, they are often modified to reflect local political and other issues. Fo encourages directors and translators to modify his plays as they see fit, as he finds this in accordance to the commedia dell'arte tradition of on-stage improvisation. Fo currently owns and operates a theatre company with his wife, actress Franca Rame. Upon awarding him the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature, the committee highlighted Fo as a writer "who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden". Description above from the Wikipedia article Dario Fo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2024
- The Open Couple ... (Theatre Play)
2020
- Não Vamos Pagar Nada ... (Theatre Play)
2018
- Now and Forever Time to Reclaim Life as Self (archive footage)
2017
- La voce di Fantozzi as Sé stesso
2015
2014
- 27 aprile Racconto di un evento as Self
2010
- Bandiera Viola as Self
- Woodstock 5 Stelle as Dario Fo
2009
- Vittorio D. as Self
2008
- Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11 as Self
2005
- The Newspaper ... (Production Design)
- The Peddler's Backpack as Self
- Rossini: La Gazzetta ... (Set Designer)
2002
- Venetian Rascal Goes to America as Johan Padan anziano (voice)
- Forbidden Grass
- Il mondo alla rovescia: appunti sul cabaret milanese as Himself
- Das Jahrhundert des Theaters as Self
1998
- The Accidental Death of an Anarchist ... (Writer)
1996
- How the Toys Saved Christmas as Scarafoni (voice)
1989
- Musica per vecchi animali as Lucio Lucertola
- I promessi sposi as Azzeccagarbugli
1988
- A Woman Alone ... (Author)
1984
- Vi betaler ikke, vi betaler ikke ... (Writer)
1983
- The Accidental Death of an Anarchist ... (Theatre Play)
1981
- Sempre più difficile as self
1979
- Platiť sa nebude! ... (Theatre Play)
1958
- Domenica è sempre domenica
- March's Child as (uncredited)
- Villini a sorpresa
1957
- It Happened in Rome ... (Screenplay)
- Rascel-Fifì as Pupo - il biondo
1956
- The Screwball as Achille
1954
- Elementary School as Tipografo
- Rosso e nero ... (Writer)