Instant Access To 100,000+ Essays!

Do esiste e anche lui e un giullare. (God exists and he too is a jester.) -Dario Fo Dario Fo is an Italian satirist playwright, theater director and composer. He was born on March 24, 1926 to Leggiuno, and Varese in Lombardy, Italy. His father, Felce, was a railway station master, part-time actor and socialist. The family moved constantly when his father was transferred between posts. He learned storytelling from his maternal grandfather, fishers and glassblowers along the way. Fo was inspired by the circus and carnivals; his theatre now uses slapsticks, puns, ridicule, and explores social and political issues and criticizes any authority. He was trained in painting at the Brera Academy and in architecture at the Polytechnic Institution of Milan from 1940 to 1945. When World War II begun, his family had been active in anti-fascist resistance and often he helped his father to smuggle refugees and Allied soldiers to Switzerland. Dario was enlisted into the army of Salo republic in the end of the war but he escaped and managed to hide for the rest of the war. Fo first concentrated on set design, but then began to improvise comic monologues, satirical sketches, and fantastical narratives. After abandoning his art and his architec