An extraordinary coming-of-age memoir by the Nobel-Prize-winning playwright My First Seven Years is Dario Fo's fantastic, enchanting memoir of his youth spent in Northern Italy on the shores of Lago Maggiore. As a child, Fo grew up in a picturesque village teeming with glass-blowers, smugglers and storytellers. Of his teenage years, Fo recounts the struggles of the Fascists and Partisans, the years of World War II, and his own tragicomic experience trying to desert the Fascist army. In a series of colorful vignettes, Fo draws us into a remarkable early life filled with characters and anecdotes that would become the inspiration for his own creative genius.

My First Seven Years (Plus a Few More): A Memoir

Fo, Dario

Humor & Entertainment

Thomas Dunne Books

Mistero Buffo, or The Comic Mysteries, is based on research into mediaeval mystery plays; The Accidental Death of an Anarchist concerns the "accidental" (or not) death of an anarchist railwork who "fell" (or was pushed) to his death from a police headquarters window in 1969; Trumpets and Raspberries is "A deeply subversive farce" (The Guardian) in which the boss of Italy's biggest car manufacturer FIAT, is mistaken for a left wing terrorist.

Fo Plays: 1: Mistero Buffo; Accidental Death…; Trumpets and Raspberries; Virtuous Burglar; One Was Nude… (Contemporary Dramatists)

Literature & Fiction

Hood, Stuart

Dramas & Plays

Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

In its first two years of production in Italy, Dario Fo's notorious Accidental Death of an Anarchist was seen by over half a million people. It has since been performed all over the world, and become a classic of twentieth-century drama. A sharp and hilarious satire on police corruption, it concerns the case of an anarchist railway worker who, in 1969, 'fell' to his death from a police headquarters window.
 'I ought to warn you that the author of this sick little play, Dario Fo, has the traditional, irrational hatred of the police common to all narrowminded left-wingers and so I shall, no doubt, be the unwilling butt of endless anti-authoritarian jibes.' (Inspector Bertozzo, Central Italian Police HQ)
'A marvellous concept: a zany political farce.' (Michael Billington) 
 This edition has been adapted by Gavin Richards from Gillian Hanna's translation and features an introduction by Stuart Hood and a preface by Dario Fo.

Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Modern Classics)

Methuen Drama

Archangels Don't Play Pinball

METHUEN

Text: English (translation) Original Language: Italian

Can't Pay? Won't Pay! (Methuen Modern Plays)

Walker, Robert

Colvill, Bill

Pertile, Lino

A triumphant transformation of mediaeval mystery plays into radical political theatre Mistero Buffo, or The Comic Mysteries, recreates the irreverent vitality of the popular mediaeval theatre. It is based on careful research into the work of the strolling players of Italy in the middle ages. Essential to an understanding of the well-springs of Fo's remarkable genius, this is the first translation of the play into English."Fo is the determined enemy of pomp, ceremony and the material aspects of religion but what shines out of this exhilarating show is the love of humanity and truth." (Michael Billington, The Guardian)

MISTERO BUFFO

Heinemann

Twenty monologues for women 
 Twenty monologues in this volume which range from the deeply serious to the extravagantly comic and accessible to a wide range of audiences "The pieces are comic, grotesque, on purpose. First of all because we women have been crying for two thousand years. So let's laugh now, even at ourselves" - Franca Rame"Set at the point where reality and ideology rub up against each other, [these] monologues are vivid, concise and entertaining comments on the female condition. . .comic-but-angry, raw-but-precise" - Independent

'Woman Alone' & Other Plays (Modern Plays)

Rame, Franca

A play by Dario Fo, the author of "Accidental Death of an Anarchist", "Mistero Buffo" and "Tricks of The Trade". The play is a mixture of Vatican politics and classical Italian comedy. This volume is an adaptation by Andy de la Tour.

POPE AND THE WITCH

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

The Tricks of the Trade

Throughout the 1980s, Dario Fo, Italy's best known and most provocative satirical playwright, and his wife Franca Rame, conducted a series of performance-seminars around the world on the subject of acting. This book traces the life of the comic performer back to the itinerant jongleur and the skillful improvisations of commedia dell'arte troupes.

Dario Fo is Italy's leading contemporary playwright and performer, renowned throughout the world for his dazzling radical satires
Can't Pay Won't Pay is set in Milan, but "the problems are desperately familiar…Fo-faced farce wears a broad smile and proceeds at breathtaking speed" (Michael Coveney, Financial Times); Elizabeth "It portrays our last Tudor monarch in Fo's characteristically rollicking vein…A triumph for Gillian Hanna as translator" (Marin Hoyle, Financial Times); The Open Couple and An Ordinary Day, written with Franca Rame, deal wittily with the fate of women in a society in which both the social system in which they live and its dominant ideology are shaped by men.

Fo Plays: 2: Can't Pay? Won't Pay!; Elizabeth; The Open Couple; An Ordinary Day (Contemporary Dramatists)

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