Dario Fo Biography (1926-)

Born March 24, 1926, in San Giano, Lombardy, Italy; father, a railway worker;married Franca Rame (an actress), 1954.

Nationality
Italian
Gender
Male
Occupation
Playwright, actor, director, set designer, costume designer, producer
Birth Details
March 24, 1926
San Giano, Lombardy, Italy

Famous Works

  • CREDITS
  • Stage Appearances
  • Mistero Buffo, American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA, then Joyce Theatre, New York City, both 1986
  • Stage Work
  • Director, Mistero Buffo, American Repertory Theatre, then Joyce Theatre, both 1986
  • Director (with Franca Rame) and set and costume designer, Archangels Don't Play Pinball, American Repertory Theatre, 1987
  • Film Appearances
  • Scuola elementare (also known as Elementary School), 1954
  • Achille, Lo Svitato, 1955
  • Souvenir d'Italie (also known as It Happened in Rome),1957
  • Rascel-Fifi, 1957
  • Do Not Enter: The Visa War against Ideas, New Day Films, 1986
  • Lucio Lucertola, Musica per vecchi animali, 1989
  • Voice of Scarafoni, La Freccia azzurra (also known as La Flechebleue), Buena Vista, 1996
  • Voice of Johan Padan, Johan Padan a la descoverta de le Americhe,2000
  • Film Work
  • Opera director, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, 1992
  • Television Appearances
  • Specials
  • Mistero buffo, Italian television, 1977
  • Paper Curtain (documentary), PBS, 1986
  • Miniseries
  • I promessi sposi (also known as The Betrothed), 1988
  • WRITINGS
  • Plays
  • Archangels Don't Play Pinball, 1959 , produced at American Repertory Theatre, 1987
  • Mistero Buffo, 1969 , produced at American Repertory Theatre, thenJoyce Theatre, both 1986
  • We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!, 1970 , produced at Chelsea Theatre Center, New York City, 1980 , then Actors Theatre of St. Paul, MN, 1985, later Whole Theatre Company, Montclair, NJ, 1987 , published by Pluto Press, 1980
  • Accidental Death of an Anarchist, 1970 , produced at Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1982 , then Arena Stage, Washington,DC, 1984 , later Belasco Theatre, New York City, 1984 , then Denver Center Theatre Company, Denver, CO, 1985 , published by Pluto Press, 1980
  • (With Franca Rame) Female Parts, produced at Los Angeles Actors Theatre, Los Angeles, 1983 , published as Female Parts: One Woman Plays,Pluto Press, 1981
  • About Face, produced at Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1983
  • (With Franca Rame) Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo, produced at New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, New York City, 1983
  • Almost by Chance a Woman: Elizabeth, produced at Yale Repertory Theatre, 1987
  • The Pope and the Witch, produced at Iron Ensemble Project, New York City, 2000
  • Also wrote Tutta casa, letto e chiesa (also known as All Home,Bed and Church; monologues); Moralita del cieco e dello zoppo (also known as Morality of the Blind and the Lame); Nozze di Canaan(also known as The Marriage at Cana); Lazzaro (also known as Lazarus); La nascita del giullare (also known as The Birth ofthe Jester).
  • Operas
  • L'Italiana in Algeri, produced at Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, Italy, 1999
  • Screenplays
  • Lo Svitato, 1955
  • Souvenir d'Italie (also known as It Happened in Rome),Lopert, 1959
  • Television Movies
  • Hohn der Angst, 1982
  • Television Plays
  • Den Nakne mannen och mannen i frack (also known as L'uomo nudo e l'umomo in frac), 1967
  • Nao Se Paga! Nao Se Paga!, 1998
  • Television Series
  • Sketches, Canzonissima, Italian television, 1959
  • Books
  • Marino libero! Marion e innocente!, Einaudi, 1998

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

    Periodicals:
    • Aperture, October 10, 1997, Summer, 1993, p. 12.
    • The Guardian, p. 3.
    • The Independent, March 7, 1998, p. 14.
    • Jakarta Post, March 3, 2000 .
    • Modern Drama, March 3, 1990, p. 139.
    • New York Times, October 10, 1997, pp. A1, A8; October 15, 1997, p.B10; December 8, 1997, p. A5; September 23, 2000, p. A19.
    • Theatre Journal, October 10, 1993, p. 303.
    • The Times, October 10, 1997, p. 13.
    • The Wall Street Journal, October 10, 1997, p. D1.
    • World Literature Today, Winter, 1998, p. 9.