Dario Fo

...off its second season, the Northern Virginia company has mounted "We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!" by the irreverent Italian playwright Dario Fo, a Nobel laureate. This satirical 1974 comedy is a zany but politically pointed meditation on the...

In this article: Falls Church, Michael Kramer, and Capitalism

Dario Fo (born March 24, 1926) is an Italian satirist , playwright, theater director, actor, and composer. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997. In 2007 he was ranked Joint Seventh with Stephen Hawking in The Telegraph 's list...

In this article: Franca Rame, Milan, Nobel Prize for Literature, Italian Communist Party, New York, Italy, and Salvador Allende

...are now available to many more readers than before. Then again other winners seemed pretty lightweight. (The Italian playwright Dario Fo springs to mind) So what of Herta Muller? She was born into a German-speaking village in Romania in...

In this article: Herta Muller, Nobel Prize for literature, Samuel Beckett, Serpent's Tail, Michael Hofmann, VS Naipaul, and Winston Churchill

...of information", protesters listened to speeches from centre left opposition MPs as well as the Nobel prize winner playwright Dario Fo and Roberto Saviano, the author of the Mafia expose, Gomorrah. Many also carried placards attacking Mr...

In this article: Silvio Berlusconi, Italy, Rome, Nobel Prize, Mediaset, Mafia, and Roberto Saviano

...to the streets of Rome today to defend press freedom and target Silvio Berlusconi for wanting to muzzle critical media voices. Dario Fo, the Nobel prize-winning playwright, and Roberto Saviano, the author of the Mafia expose Gomorrah, will...

In this article: Silvio Berlusconi, Rome, Nobel Prize, Mafia, Roberto Saviano, Spain, and Sardinia

...ArtSpace in Falls Church, the Greater Reston Arts Center and the Soundry in Vienna. Hub's first show, a political farce by Dario Fo, "We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!" will run Oct. 30 to Nov. 22 in ArtSpace. The next full production will be in...

In this article: Measure for Measure and Romeo and Juliet

...galvanising many of the big names in Italian arts and letters. It has been signed by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright Dario Fo, who wrote Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and the philosopher and writer Umberto Eco, most famous as...

In this article: Silvio Berlusconi, L'unita, Catholic Church, Avvenire, Veronica Lario, Rome, and Nobel Prize

...is being sued for one million euros by the prime minister. He was joined by other well-known writers and intellectuals, including Dario Fo, the satirist and playwright, Andrea Camilleri, the crime novelist, and Roberto Saviano, the...

In this article: Silvio Berlusconi, Umberto Eco, Allegation, Veronica Lario, Democracy, Andrea Camilleri, Reuters, and Roberto Saviano

...given the trio's decorated resume. Its roots formed after Edwards and Azar met while scoring Nobel-winning playwright Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist. Both served time in other bands: Edwards was the ax master of Failure.

In this article: Autolux, Carla Azar, Wired.com, Titanium, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Echoes, Steroid, and T-Bone Burnett

...a ¦ in their own words", also at the Assembly. Or Francis, the Holy Jester, at the Pleasance Courtyard, a new translation of Dario Fo's monologues of the travels of St Francis of Assisi. Some 12 Italian offerings also includes In Search...

In this article: Harry Horse, Richard Herring, Amnesty International, Ferret, St Francis of Assisi, Baked potato, Potato, Irania, and The Scotsman