“If you have lived well, death is the right end of life”. A phrase that belongs to a great man of the Italian theater. Today is the fourth anniversary of the death of the great Dario Fo, actor, playwright, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997. Throughout his career he has been able to mix popular culture, evangelical parables and medieval mysteries.
I will recover the grammelot that particular emission of senseless sounds which give a comic or farcical effect. And above all he was able to reinvent the theater: for him the commedia dell'arte was the instrument with satire to make fun of power but also to tell the hypocrisies of religion. We want to remember him on this day when he left us four years ago at the age of 90.
Dario Fo and the partnership with Franca Rame
We often have told of the role that Dario Fo had in the Italian theater. Director, playwright, painter and set designer, even a singer. His characteristic was to be funny, humorous with sarcasm, brilliant. But unfortunately not fully understood and often criticized for his irreverence. One of our most brilliant artists in recent years had returned to perform in Milan with his lifelong wife, Franca Rame. With her an artistic partnership that makes them the most loved couple by a cultured, courageous public. A true and spontaneous satire, a genius rewarded with the Nobel.
That evening in Stockholm a few years ago, the Nobel Prize went to Dario Fo
On the net there are many videos of his memorable interpretations, of that "funny Mystery" capable of telling like a popular jester, monologues that describe some biblical episodes, all with great hilarity. And then there are the images of that evening of 9 October 1997 when Dario Fo received the Nobel Prize for literature in Stockholm. There motivation "Because, following the tradition of medieval jesters, he mocked power by restoring dignity to the oppressed".
The most beautiful and meaningful theater texts
Her testi plays of political and social satire were interpreted with great style. Among the most beautiful and significant works of Dario Fo there are “The finger in the eye”, from 1953, a play written and proposed by Dario Fo, Giustino Durano and Franco Parenti in 1953. A piece of social and political satire, repeatedly subjected to censorship. Then “Not all thieves come to harm"Of 1958, "Accidental death of an anarchist" of 1970, dedicated to the "accidental death" of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli. Still "You don't pay! You don't pay! " from 1974, a work linked to the historical and political context of the time. "The rape of Francesca"In 1986, played by Franca Rame.
