Fo Plays

2: Can't Pay? Won't Pay!; Elizabeth; The Open Couple; An Ordinary Day

Dario Fo, Bill Colvill, Robert Walker , Gillian Hanna

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Methuen Drama & Non Fict.
01 August 2006

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Series: Contemporary Dramatists

"Dario Fo is Italy's leading contemporary playwright and performer, renowned throughout the world for his dazzling radical satires

Can't Pay Won't Pay is set in Milan, but ""the problems are desperately familiar...

Fo-faced farce wears a broad smile and proceeds at breathtaking speed"" (Michael Coveney, Financial Times); Elizabeth ""It portrays our last Tudor monarch in Fo's characteristically rollicking vein...

A triumph for Gillian Hanna as translator"" (Marin Hoyle, Financial Times); The Open Couple and An Ordinary Day, written with Franca Rame, deal wittily with the fate of women in a society in which both the social system in which they live and its dominant ideology are shaped by men."

By: Dario Fo
Adapted by: Bill Colvill, Robert Walker
Translated by: Gillian Hanna, Joe Farrell
Imprint: Methuen Drama & Non Fict.
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 360g
ISBN: 9780413680204
ISBN 10: 0413680207
Series: Contemporary Dramatists
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 August 2006
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product

A popular and controversial playwright, actor and director, Dario Fo has earned international acclaim for his political satires and farces, and has led the field in political satire in Europe for over thirty years. His best known plays include Accidental Death of an Anarchist, We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!, and Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997 for emulating the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden.