Winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature, Dario Fo is one of the world's most important contemporary playwrights, forging subversive comedy, clowning, unusual linguistic experimentation, and brilliant playwriting into a comedy of complete originality. In a first-person monologue that bends and mutates language and historical fact, Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas is a brilliant, vividly imagined retelling of Christopher Columbus's voyage to America. Told by a last-minute conscript assigned to clean the shipboard pig stalls, who goes on to be adopted by a tribe of Indians and...
Winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature, Dario Fo is one of the world's most important contemporary playwrights, forging subversive comedy, clow...
Another farce by Dario Fo, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature. Millionaire media boss Diane Forbes-McKaye is kidnapped--but this ruthless magnate proves more resourceful than her clumsy abductors. Are things what they seem? Who is in charge? Who masterminded the abduction? Into this cocktail add a gun-toting priest, a deranged altar boy, a kidnapper hiding in the frifge, a pyromaniac, and and an explosive climax.
Another farce by Dario Fo, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature. Millionaire media boss Diane Forbes-McKaye is kidnapped--but this ruthless m...
