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Dario Fo
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"…
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Born 24 March 1926 · Died 13 October 2016 · Q765
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2016· 7 entries
dw: Italian playwright Dario Fo dies aged 90
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Died 2016-10-13.
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Fo remained an active participant and campaigner on various political, social and cultural issues, most of all the populist Five Star Movement
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“Fermare la diffusione del sapere è uno strumento di controllo per il potere perché conoscere è saper leggere, interpretare, verificare di persona e non fidarsi di quello che ti dicono. La conoscenza ti fa dubitare. Soprattutto del potere. Di ogni potere.”
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“Dario Fo, dramaturgo italiano, sobre o caso Lewinsky”
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Wrote his last book Razza di Zingaro, published by Chiarelettere and based on the life of the Sinti boxer Johann 'Rukeli' Trollmann, who was murdered in a nazi concentration camp
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2008· 1 entry
Was among the signatories of an open letter to la Repubblica which called on the state to protect Roberto Saviano, whose life was under threat after exposing the clandestine activities of the Camorra in his 2006 book
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (2005).
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Fo revealed plans to run for Mayor of Milan, the most economically important city in Italy, the following year
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2004· 1 entry
Forza Italia senator Marcello Dell'Utri, on trial at the time for money laundering, sued Fo over references to him in his latest play
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2003· 1 entry
Also poked fun at the shortness of then prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, had him strapped to a chair and given electric shock treatment and portrayed Vladimir Putin being shot dead by Chechen rebels while visiting Berlu
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2001).
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Fo became Satrap of the Collège de 'Pataphysique
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1997).
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Wrote Il diavolo con le zinne (The Devil with Boobs)
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1994· 1 entry
By Stephen Stenning for English audiences
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1990· 1 entry
“re Falling!) in summer 1990, and it debuted at Milan”
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1989· 1 entry
In solidarity with those affected by the Tiananmen Square Massacre, Fo updated La storia della tigre and wrote two monologues Lettera dalla Cina (Letter from China) and The Story of Qu
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1988· 1 entry
Fo returned to film acting for the first time since 1958, playing a retired professor in Musica per vecchi animali (Music for Old Animals)
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1983· 2 entries
Italian censors restricted Coppia aperta, quasi spalancata (The Open Couple) to audiences over the age of 18 when Rame included as a prologue her monologue The Rape (inspired by her own rape)
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Displayed Fo's increased interest in the English Elizabethan Theatre, and preceded Quasi per caso una donna: Elisabetta (Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman), which Fo and Rame began work on in late 1984
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1981· 2 entries
Awarded Sonning Prize (1981).
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With La Commune having been evicted from the Palazzina Liberty, a second version of Tutta casa, letto e chiesa opened at the Teatro Odeon, the first time in 16 years that Fo and Rame performed there
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1980· 1 entry
The United States authorities blocked Fo and Rame from performing at the country's Festival of Italian Theatre, an act which has been compared with the country's similar treatment of Bertolt Brecht, Charlie Chaplin and G
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1977· 1 entry
After 14 years off the air, RAI's administration having been changed following the previous year's general election
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1974· 1 entry
The company—which had now become Il Collettivo Teatrale "La Comune" diretto da Dario Fo—occupied and cleaned up an abandoned market building in Porta Vittoria (a working-class area of Milan) and dubbed it the Palazzina L
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1972· 1 entry
Released album “Ma che aspettate a batterci le mani”.
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1970· 1 entry
Fo and Rame began their third theatre group, Collettivo Teatrale "La Comune" with the musician Paolo Ciarchi and the administrator Nanni Ricordi
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1967· 1 entry
It contained topical references to the Vietnam War, Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of John F
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1963· 1 entry
Released album “Isabella, tre caravelle e un cacciaballe”.
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1962· 1 entry
Fo wrote and directed a variety show, Canzonissima, for RAI
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1959· 1 entry
Began a series of six full-length plays that were performed each season at the Teatro Odeon
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1958· 1 entry
The couple returned to Milan when Rame was offered roles in a series of farces at the Arlecchino Theatre
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1956· 1 entry
Fo co-wrote and acted with Rame in the Carlo Lizzani's film Lo svitato (The screwball), influenced by Jacques Tati, Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin
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1953· 1 entry
Fo—in collaboration with Parenti and Durano in their own revue company which they called I Dritti (The Stand-ups)—co-wrote, co-directed and designed the sets and costumes for a revue called Il dito nell'occhio (A finger
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1952· 2 entries
Which allowed him to develop the gesture and action not required for radio
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Fo performed Cocoricò with Giustino Durano, which featured a 20-minute sketch focusing on the plight of black people in the United States
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1950· 1 entry
Fo asked to work with Franco Parenti on a variety show performed by radio actors, beginning a collaboration that would last until 1954
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1942· 1 entry
Fo moved to Milan to study at the Academy Brera Academy
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1926· 1 entry
Born 1926-03-24.
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