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Dario Fo

Italian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, theater director, painter, and political activist (1926-2016)

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Dario Fo was an Italian theatrical director, stage actor, screenwriter, and composer. Born in Sangiano, Varese, Italy, on 24 March 1926, he began his work period in 1950 and continued until 2016. His notable works include Mistero Buffo, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and Can't Pay? Won't Pay! He was also recognized for other writings such as Pum, pum! chi è? la polizia! and My First Seven Years.

Fo received the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Sonning Prize, and the Orden al Mérito Docente y Cultural Gabriela Mistral. He was a member of the College of 'Pataphysics and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Educated at the Brera Academy, he practiced Buddhism. He was married to Franca Rame, and they had a child named Jacopo Fo. Dario Fo died at Luigi Sacco Hospital on 13 October 2016.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 24 March 1926
Died: 13 October 2016
Works: 270

Top works

Pum, pum! chi è? la polizia!
My First Seven Years
Dario Fo Plays Vol. 1
Muerte accidental de un anarquista
Fabulazzo osceno

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Film & TV

Writing · Sangiano, Varese, Italy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dario Fo (born 24 March 1926) is an Italian satirist, playwright, theatre director, actor, composer and recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. His dramatic work employs comedic methods of the ancient Italian commedia dell'arte, a theatrical style popular with the working classes. Fo's works are characterised by criticisms of organised crime,…

Known for

Now and Forever Time to Reclaim Life — Self (archive footage)2018
La voce di Fantozzi — Sé stesso2017
Callas2015
27 aprile Racconto di un evento — Self2014
Woodstock 5 Stelle — Dario Fo2010
Bandiera Viola — Self2010
Vittorio D. — Self2009
Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11 — Self2008
Io non sono un moderato — Sé stesso2007
The Peddler's Backpack — Self2005

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Italy
Active from: 1926
Active to: 2016

Discography

Member of

La Comune

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 751
Total plays: 3,900

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,417x
Inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3 by insulin mediated by protein kinase B
· 1995 · cited 4,203x
2019 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism developed in collaboration with the European Respiratory Society (ERS)
· 2019 · cited 4,149x
A cross-platform toolkit for mass spectrometry and proteomics
· 2012 · cited 4,057x
On the separation of net ecosystem exchange into assimilation and ecosystem respiration: review and improved algorithm
· 2005 · cited 3,275x

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Quotes

“When you put on a mask, you cannot lie. The mask is born with man because the mask and the party ensure that everything is a joke, everything is for laughter. Long live the mask that gives everyone the chance for another life, within parentheses of freedom without paying taxes. Satire is the most effective weapon against power: power cannot tolerate humor, not even rulers who call themselves democrats, because laughter frees man from his fears.”
“There is no greater equation than the stupidity of men, especially when those men are in power.”
“Men are lying when they say they are terrified of blood.”
“Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is freedom. We have only one idea: revolution in our hearts.”

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature1997
“who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Luigi
Gender: male
Citizenship: Italy
Place of birth: Leggiuno
Place of death: Luigi Sacco Hospital
Spouse: Franca Rame
Child: Jacopo Fo
Educated at: Brera Academy
Political party: Communist Refoundation Party
Languages spoken: Italian
Religion: Buddhism
Notable work: Can't Pay? Won't Pay!
Genre: comedy
Official website: www.dariofo.it
Image: Dario Fo, Italian playwright.jpg

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Commons category: Dario Fo
date of birth: 1926-03-24
member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
topic's main category: Category:Dario Fo
date of death: 2016-10-13
start of work period: 1950-00-00
end of work period: 2016-00-00
Commons Creator page: Dario Fo
ethnic group: Italians
place of burial: monumental cemetery of Milan
cause of death: respiratory disease
birth name: Dario Luigi Angelo Fo
name in native language: Dario Fo
P8168: Muna Lee
P12674: Helmuth Förster
manner of death: natural causes

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Encyclopedic overview

Dario Luigi Angelo Fo ( Italian: [ˈdaːrjo ˈfɔ]; 24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) 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 (medieval strolling players) and, more famously, the ancient Italian style of commedia dell'arte.

His plays have been translated into 30 languages and performed across the world, including in Argentina, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, India, Iran, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Yugoslavia. His work of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s is peppered with criticisms of assassinations, corruption, organised crime, racism, Roman Catholic theology, and war. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, he took to lampooning Forza Italia and its leader Silvio Berlusconi, while his targets of the 2010s included the banks amid the European sovereign-debt crisis. Also in the 2010s, he became the main ideologue of the Five Star Movement, the anti-establishment party led by Beppe Grillo, often referred to by its members as "the Master".

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