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Dario Fo

Dario Fo
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About

Dario Fo (1926-2016) was an Italian playwright, actor, and director whose work fuses political satire, farce, and the tradition of commedia dell'arte. He received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature - the Swedish Academy cited him as a writer who "emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden". He wrote more than eighty plays, many co-authored with his wife Franca Rame, and his work has been translated into thirty languages and staged on every continent.

30+
languages into which the plays were translated
80+
plays written (part together with Franca Rame)
53
countries where the plays were performed in 2023-2024
863
international productions of the play Non si paga! over 50 years (until 2024)

What's new

  • 2025-09

    The Fondazione Fo Rame announced that as part of the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of Dario's birth, 100 productions of his plays will take place around the world in 2026.

  • 2024

    In 2024, the play Non si paga! Non si paga! had a total of 43 productions in 22 countries and Morte accidentale di un anarchico 39 productions in 14 countries.

  • 2024-11

    The London theatre The Playground Theatre presented in November 2024 a double programme with works by Dario Fo and Anton Chekhov directed by Justin Butcher.

  • 2025-12

    The theatre school University of Washington prepared for the 2025-2026 season a new American adaptation of Fo's 1974 farce under the title They Don't Pay! We Won't Pay!

  • 2024

    Since Fo's death in 2016, his texts have been republished or translated into 24 languages in bookstores around the world.

Tracks

Morte accidentale di un anarchico (Náhodná smrt anarchisty)the most famous play, 1970; satirizes police corruption, still performed in 14 countries
Mistero Buffoa solo opus from 1969, performed for 30 years worldwide; the Vatican called it "the most blasphemous television program in the history of television"
Non si paga! Non si paga! (Neplatíme! Neplatíme!)a farce from 1974; by 2024 it reached 863 international productions in 57 countries
Tutta casa, letto e chiesa1978, written with Franca Rame; a feminist farce, one of the most frequently performed plays by this couple
Clacson, trombette e pernacchi (Trumpety a maliny)1981; a political satire, performed internationally under the title Trumpets and Raspberries

😴 Nothing scheduled with this artist in the near future.

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