Dario Fos Political Theatre

Dario Fos Political Theatre Dario Fo's Political Theatre Dario Fo's plays were written in Italy during the 60's and 70's. During this time there was widespread dissatisfaction throughout Italy towards the government and various factions within the country , the nation seethed with discontent.Dario Fo was born in 1926 in the Italian state of Lombardy. During the fifties , Fo , along with his wife Franca Rame , had a succesful career as an actor , director and writer of comedies in conventional theatre. During the sixties , they abondened conventional theatre and chose the working classes as the target audience for their new, left wing plays. Fo's new productions were based upon the Commedia dell'arte of renaissance times. His main influence is the old guillari, wandering performers who would perform for the masses using their own style of satire , a ambiguous disrespect for the authorities (particularly the church).Fo , a dissatisfied citizen of Italy , used theatre to attack and ridicule Italy's governing syste m.Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo in Milan