We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! and Other Plays

We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! and Other Plays
Author: Dario Fo
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2001
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781559361828

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature In the words of his translator, Ron Jenkins: "The Nobel committee's decision to honor Fo as a master of literature is a historic tribute to the theatre, which is still viewed by many as literature's bastard child; it is also the first time that the Nobel for the literary arts has been awarded to an actor. This courageous and controversial choice indirectly expands the modern definition of literature to include the power of the spoken word." Volume One includes: We Won't Pay We Won't Pay Elizabeth Archangels Don't Play Pinball About Face

Dario Fo

Dario Fo
Author: Tony Mitchell
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 583
Release: 2014-01-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1408148641

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/performer's unique literary and theatrical strengths. Each of Fo's plays and productions is discussed at length and the author has included an extensive and updated bibliography which includes full production details, quotes and writings about Fo. Always a popular performer in his native Italy, Fo has been one of the world's most performed dramatists. In the author's words: he is the "people's court jester".

Twentieth-Century European Drama

Twentieth-Century European Drama
Author: Brian Docherty
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1993-11-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1349230731

This volume offers critical and theoretical perspectives on some of the major figures in European drama in the twentieth century. There are thirteen essays covering Luigi Pirandello, Bertolt Brecht, Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Samuel Beckett, Antonin Artaud, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Anouilh, Fernando Arrabal, Jean Genet, Peter Weiss, Vaclav Havel, comtemporary German theatre, and Dario Fo and Franca Rame. These specially commissioned essays combine contemporary theory with a discussion of the dramatic work of the playwrights who created modern drama in Europe.

Talking India

Talking India
Author: Ramin Jahanbegloo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2006-04-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0199087792

This book is a series of comprehensive interviews conducted by Ramin Jahanbegloo at Tehran and organized over six sessions. The interviewer questions Nundy within the context of his own 'Indian-ness' as also his affinity (and criticisms) for things Indian: whether it be thought, religion, or pluralistic tendencies. The essence of Ashis Nundy and his perspectives on a wide range of things include political philosophy, democracy, India and Pakistan, globalization, Indian culture and tradition, and Gandhi are all revealed.

Commedia dell'Arte in Context

Commedia dell'Arte in Context
Author: Christopher B. Balme
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 709
Release: 2018-04-05
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1108670571

The commedia dell'arte, the improvised Italian theatre that dominated the European stage from 1550 to 1750, is arguably the most famous theatre tradition to emerge from Europe in the early modern period. Its celebrated masks have come to symbolize theatre itself and have become part of the European cultural imagination. Over the past twenty years a revolution in commedia dell'arte scholarship has taken place, generated mainly by a number of distinguished Italian scholars. Their work, in which they have radically separated out the myth from the history of the phenomenon remains, however, largely untranslated into English (or any other language). The present volume gathers together these Italian and English-speaking scholars to synthesize for the first time this research for both specialist and non-specialist readers. The book is structured around key topics that span both the early modern period and the twentieth-century reinvention of the commedia dell'arte.

Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Author: Dario Fo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1991
Genre:
ISBN: 9780413651006

A new translation of Fo's play which aims to be faithful to the clear-sighted insanity of the original. The author's other plays include "Mistero Buffo", "Trumpets and Raspberries" and "Archangels Don't Play Pinball".

From the Greek Mimes to Marcel Marceau and Beyond

From the Greek Mimes to Marcel Marceau and Beyond
Author: Annette Lust
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780810845930

One of the few studies covering the historical flow of mime from its beginnings to postmodern movement theatre, this book explores the evolution of mime and pantomime from the Greeks to the 20th Century, depicting the role of mime in dance, clowning, the cinema, and verbal theatre throughout the centuries. With over sixty illustrations, this worldwide study is indispensable for the student, teacher, or fan of mime.

The Best Plays of 1979-1980

The Best Plays of 1979-1980
Author: Otis L. Guernsey
Publisher: Dodd Mead
Total Pages: 588
Release: 1980
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780396079071

Complete listings of all Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway productions and excerpts and summaries of the Ten Best Plays of the 1979-1980 season