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. [1]

Mar 20, 2025 · Dario Fo, Italian avant-garde playwright, manager-director, and actor-mime who was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Dario Fo prepares an adaptation of Brecht’s “Three-penny Opera” that is rejected for its political content. The main resistance comes from Brecht’s daughter (the Berlin Wall has not yet fallen).

Oct 13, 2016 · Dario Fo, the Italian playwright and actor famous for his cutting political satires, has died in Milan at the age of 90. Fo, whose plays include Accidental Death of an Anarchist and Can't Pay?...

Oct 13, 2016 · Dario Fo, the Italian playwright, director and performer whose scathingly satirical work earned him both praise and condemnation, as well as the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature, died on...

Oct 13, 2016 · Dario Fo is one of modern political theater’s leading figures. His work is based on medieval farce and the buffoonery of commedia dell’arte, and it was performed not only in the theater, but also in parks, prisons and schools.

Dario Fo is a Nobel Prize winning Italian playwright and an eminent actor and theater director. Check out this biography to know about his childhood, life, achievements, works & timeline.

Actor-playwright, comedian, teatre director, stage designer, painter and political campaigner, a well-rounded theater man, Dario Fo has had, without any doubt, the credit for revolutionizing with skill and elegance, the Italian art world, together with his wife and theater actress Franca Rame.

Dario Fo, one of the leading figures in modern farce and political drama, was born in 1926 in the village of Sangiano (Varese) in Lombardy, where while still young he came into contact with popular theatrical and narrative traditions (his grandfather was a well-known fabulatore).

Oct 14, 2016 · On the same day a new Nobel laureate for literature was inducted, the curtain fell on the life of another, the maverick Italian playwright and 1997 Nobel winner Dario Fo, who has died aged 90.