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A Woman Alone and Other Plays
A Woman Alone and Other Plays
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Last copy!
Author: Franca Rame and Dario Fo Edited by: Stuart Hood Translated by: Gillian Hanna Publisher: Methuen Format: Softcover # of Pages: 224 Pub. Date: 1990 ISBN-10: 0413640302 ISBN-13: 9780413640307
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About
the Play:
HARD TO FIND BOOK, only a very limited number of copies are still
available.
A Woman Alone and Other Plays is a collection of
one-woman plays by Franca Rame
and Dario Fo. Plays
written by Nobel Prize-winning Italian political satirist Dario
Fo and his artistic partner and
wife, Franca Rame,
who are
noted for their collaboration on important feminist and political
theatre in Italy, in which a wild popular comedy based on the
Commedia dell'arte plays a large part. Two plays start with the
breakdown of a relationship and deal with the fate of women in a
society in which both the social system in which they live and its
dominant ideology are shaped by men. The
twenty monologues in this
volume which range from the deeply serious to the extravagantly comic
and accessible to a wide range of audiences. About the Playwright:
Franca Rame (1929-2013) was an Italian theatre actress,
playwright and political activist. She was married to Nobel laureate
playwright Dario Fo who dedicated his Nobel Prize to her.
Dario Fo (1926-2016) was a major figure in Twentieth
Century Italian drama as an actor, director and author of over 60
plays. His dramatic work employs comedic methods of the ancient
Italian commedia dell'arte, a theatrical style popular with the
working classes. His work is characterized by criticism of organized
crime, political corruption, political assassination, the doctrine of
the Catholic Church and the conflict in the Middle East. The Nobel
Prize in Literature 1997 was awarded to Dario Fo "who
emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and
upholding the dignity of the downtrodden". It is also the
first time that the Nobel for the literary arts has been awarded to
an actor.
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Dario Fo, translated by Ron Jenkins
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