Dario Fo was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer and songwriter, and a political campaigner for the Italian left, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1997. Described in his time as arguably the most widely performed contemporary playwright in world theatre, he built much of his dramatic work around improvisation and the recovery of older, unofficial forms of Italian performance, particularly the ancient tradition of commedia dell'arte and the wandering jester or giullare. His best known play, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, is a satire built around a real police scandal.
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In his time he was "arguably the most widely performed contemporary playwright in world theatre".
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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.
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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
Practices: Theatre, Lead
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
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In 1950, he began to work for Franco Parenti's theater company, and gradually abandoned his work as an assistant architect.
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