Dario Fo : people's court jester / Tony Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Tony, 1949- author.

Series:

Biography and Autobiography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fo, Dario--Influence.

Fo, Dario.

Fo, Dario--Stage history.

Fo, Dario--Political and social views.

Theater--Political aspects.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (529 p.)

Edition:

Revised and expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 1999.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The first and only full-length critical study of Dario Fo, the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner. This book, now extensively rewritten and updated, remains the only full-length critical study to cover various phases of Dario Fo's theatrical career. It looks at Fo's political influences and also the influence on his work of various theatrical motifs, including the great clown traditions which stretch back to the middle ages. The political work of Dario Fo and his wife/collaborator Franca Rame is charted from the 1960s up to the present to give the reader clear insight into this playwright/

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Author; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: THE THEATRE OF DARIO FO AND FRANCA RAME; CHAPTER 1. MISTERO BUFFO AND THE GIULLARATE; Popular culture, the giullari and the grotesque; Recovering 'illegitimate' forms of theatre - the giullari; Language as burlesque - grammelot; Addressing the audience - prologues, interludes and asides; The texts in performance; The TV performances; A Chinese Mistero buffo: Tale of a Tiger; Obscene Fables; Mistero buffo and its legacies; CHAPTER 2. BIOGRAPHY AND OUTPUT 1951-1967; Early influences; Radio origins; Revue and avanspettacolo

Musical activities and the cinemaThe early farces; The 'bourgeois period'; The television fiasco; Historical drama in an epic context; Graveyard humour and witchcraft; Popular music, an adaptation, and circus satire; CHAPTER 3. THEATRE IN THE SERVICE OF CLASS STRUGGLE 1968-1973; Nuova Scena: a new theatre for a new audience; La Comune and Accidental Death of an Anarchist; Political documentaries; The 'roadshows' and Fo's arrest; CHAPTER 4. POLITICAL THEATRE ON SHIFTING GROUND 1974-1983; The Palazzina Liberty and Can't Pay? Won't Pay!; Political pamphlets; Return to TV and Female Parts

Confronting terrorism and Trumpets and RaspberriesAdapting Brecht and The Open Couple; CHAPTER 5. FROM ELIZABETH TO THE POPE AND THE WITCH 1984-1989; The Tricks of the Trade; Fo and Shakespeare, Rame and Elisabetta; Harlequin and Kidnapping Francesca; Return to TV and The Pope and the Witch; CHAPTER 6. INTO THE 1990S: MOLIÈRE, COLUMBUS, RUZZANTE AND THE NOBEL PRIZE; Molière at the Comédie Française; AIDS and genetic experiments; Let's Talk about Women and johan Padan; 'Clean Hands' and Ruzzante; Sex, devils, Sofri and the Nobel Prize; CHAPTER 7. FO AND RAME IN THE UK; Translating Fo

Adapting Fo (1) - (We) Can't Pay? (We) Won't Pay!Adapting Fo (2) - Accidental Death of an Anarchist; Adapting Fo (3) - Female Parts; Mistero buffo in London; Teaching praxis; Adapting Fo (4) - Trumpets and Raspberries; Adapting Fo (5) - From Elizabeth to Abducting Diana; CHAPTER 8. FO AND RAME IN THE USA; We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!; Accidental Death of an Anarchist on Broadway; Orgasmo Adulto; From About Face to The Story of the Tiger; PART TWO: CHRONOLOGIES OF THE WORKS OF FO AND RAME; CHAPTER 9. A biographical chronology; CHAPTER 10. Stage plays; CHAPTER 11. Minor plays

CHAPTER 12. AdaptationsCHAPTER 13. Films; CHAPTER 14. Radio plays; CHAPTER 15. Television plays; CHAPTER 16. Songs; CHAPTER 17. Books and essays; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 7, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4081-4864-1

1-4081-4863-3

OCLC:

865334802