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.
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.
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.
Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.
Health and an able body are two jewels.
Nothing is thought rare Which is not new and follow'd, yet we know That what was worne some twenty yeare agoe, Comes into grace againe.
We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics...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.
We are stark naught all, bad's the best of us.
Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.