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
For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.
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.
We are stark naught all, bad's the best of us.
Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.