If I didn’t know that Dario Fo’s No Pay? No Way! was written in the 1970s I’d have thought it was a contemporary satire, based on the year’s headlines and the state of pretty much every European country. But no, Fo’s absurdist and kind of surreal plotline was written more than 50 years ago, which just goes to show that plus ça change… The play is currently being staged by FM … [Read more...] about No Pay? No Way! Funny & sad
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Masquerade takes on powerful political satire
All-female cast for Accidental Death of an Anarchist When Masquerade stages the famous political farce Accidental Death of an Anarchist this November, it will be difficult for the audience not to draw parallels between the real-life event that Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright Dario Fo wrote about in 1970, and the real life events that are taking place right now, on … [Read more...] about Masquerade takes on powerful political satire