Dario Fo
Dario Fo
Dario Fois an Italian actor-playwright, comedian, singer, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, painter and political campaigner of the italian extremist left-wing, recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. "Arguably the most widely performed contemporary playwright in world theatre", much of his dramatic work depends on improvisation and comprises the recovery of "illegitimate" forms of theatre, such as those performed by giullari and, more famously, the ancient Italian style of commedia dell'arte...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth24 March 1926
CountryItaly
I am interested, too, in satirical theater, in the grotesque, or even in tragedy at times, but I am mostly comfortable with comedy.
We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics ... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.
In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs.
We had extremely democratic town councils in medieval Italy which knew the value of working together, and every now and then, down the centuries, this spirit returns.
Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized.
I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better.
I am the jongleur. I leap and pirouette, and make you laugh. I make fun of those in power, and I show you how puffed up and conceited are the big shots who go around making wars in which we are the ones who get slaughtered. I reveal them for what they are. I pull out the plug, and... pssss... they deflate.
For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.
Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.
Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient.
Blush at your faults.
Best while you have it use your breath, There is no drinking after death.
For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.
Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.