by Dario Fo · Siruela · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478443994
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This collection of comedies by Dario Fo, including 'Los pintores no tienen recuerdos', 'No hay ladrón que por bien no venga', 'El hombre desnudo y el hombre de frac', 'Los muertos se facturan y las mujeres se desnudan' and 'A donde el corazón se inclina, el pie camina', presents farces written in the fifties, at the beginning of his career. In these works, Fo established himself as a playwright, director and performer, together with his wife Franca Rame. Starting from the French tradition of boulevard comedy and vaudeville, Fo introduces elements of Italian popular comedy, creating a new genre of surreal farce, full of delirious characters and absurd situations.
Dario Luigi Angelo Fo was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. In his time he was "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.
