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.

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