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
And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.
With comedy I can search for the profound.
Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.
A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.
Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe.
Know how to live the time that is given you.
It is not just a question of experience, nor is it a question of age ... There are some people who live only 20 years, but many, many people remember them because they knew how to live the time that was given to them. I'm not suggesting that you should live only 20 years. Live as long as you can, but from time to time, think '20 years, 20 years, 20 years', and put them together.
We must hold primary elections to choose the center-left candidate for mayor of Milan,
I had the great good fortune to be born in a mad village. It was the kind of village that you could not actually invent.