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The Father
Felice Fo was an actor, appearing for an amateur theatre company. Died in January 01, 1987 (88) Luino, Province of Varese, Lombardy, Italy -
The mother
Pina Rota Fo wrote a book called "Land of Frogs" released in 1978, (from a peasants background) off reminisces of the area between the wars. Died April 06, 1987 at age 83. -
The birth of Dario Fo
Born in Leggiuno Sangiano Italy. He was an Italian actor & author. -
Fo's Siblings
Fulvio Fo was born in Luino, Lombardy, Italy who later became a theatre administrator. Died November 17, 2010 (age 82) in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Their youngest sister Bianca Fo Garambois became a writer. -
Education
Fo moved to Milan to study at the academy of Bera Academy. However the 2nd World War intervened. -
Franca Rame
An Italian Actress born July 18, 1928 at Lombardia, Italy. Became engaged to Dario Fo, together they founded various theatre companies. They had one son: Jacopo Fo. -
Jacopo Fo
Dario Fo's son became a writer. -
The Virtuous Burglar
Is a one act play, a French style comedy in which a burglar who is in the act of burgling the house is interrupted by the arrival of a couple - who are in fact having an affair. -
Archangels Don't Play Pinball
Is a two-act play that uses the metaphor of a pinball machine—a new innovation in Italy at the time of and one of which Fo and his wife Franca Rame were fond. -
Isabella, Three Sailing Ships and a Con Man
is a 1963 two-act play by Italian playwright Dario Fo, the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. Some people got angry: Fo received threatening letters, was assaulted in Rome with Rame by Fascist groups who also threw rubbish at them, while another performance was disrupted by a bomb scare -
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
The play is based on the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing. Considered a classic of 20th-century theater, it has been performed across the world in more than forty countries -
Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga!
Can't Pay? Won't Pay! is a comedy about consumer backlash against high prices. The play is written to criticize merchants and landlords responsible for raising the prices of necessary goods and rent, and the bosses who cut jobs, salaries, and benefits. -
The Tale of a Tiger
A dramatic monologue about During Mao's Long March across China, a revolutionary soldier is wounded. His comrades leave him behind. Gangrene sets in, and he believes that he is about to die. He drags himself into a cave and falls into a deep sleep. When he awakens, he is confronted by the sight of a tiger and her cub. What follows is a comic narrative about their domestic life together, as the tiger nurses him back to health -
Trumpets and Raspberries
The fictional plot revolves around a real political figure, Gianni Agnelli, head of the Fiat corporation from 1966 to 2003. When Agnelli is disfigured in a failed kidnap attempt, he is rescued by Antonio, one of his Fiat employees. Antonio flees the scene when people start shooting at him, leaving his jacket on Agnelli's body. Agnelli is taken to hospital in Antonio's jacket, where he mistakenly has his face reconstructed in Antonio's likeness. Farcical confusion ensues -
The Open Couple
Is a romantic play which was written with his wife. The Italian censors restricted it to audiences over the age of 18 when Rame included as a prologue her monologue The Rape (inspired by her own rape. -
Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman
Franca Rame plays Elizabeth. The play takes place in the boudoir of Elizabeth I of England. In the midst of political upheaval aging Elizabeth is eagerly awaiting the arrival of her lover, the Earl of Essex, who is involved in an attempted coup d'etat against the queen. -
The Pope and the Witch
is a satirical play that depicts the Pope as a paranoid, drug-addled idiot and the Vatican as corrupt. -
First serious health issue
Doris Fo had his first stroke -
Nobel Prize
He received the Nobel Prize in Literature that marked the "international acknowledgment of Fo as a major figure in twentieth-century world theatre". The Swedish Academy praised Fo as a writer "who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden". He owned and operated a theatre company. Fo was an atheist -
Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas
a one-man play by Dario Fo, recipient of the Nobel Prize. Fo's response to the 1992 quincentennial celebrations of the first voyage of Christopher Columbus to the Americas, the title character is a Venetian fugitive who escapes from the Spanish Inquisition by joining the explorer and coloniser's fourth voyage. -
The Devil with Boobs
Is a two-act play by Dario Fo, recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature -
Mistero buffo
Comical Mystery Play is a series of brief monologues with Biblical themes. It is recognised as one of the most controversial and popular spectacles in postwar European theatre. It was performed all across Europe, Canada and Latin America from 1969 to 1999. -
Fo's Death
Died in Milan, Italy at the age of 90 due to serious respiratory disease.