| Mistero Buffo: The Collected Plays of Dario Fo, Volume 2 Contributor(s): Fo, Dario (Author), Jenkins, Ron (Author) |
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ISBN: 1559362715 ISBN-13: 9781559362719 Publisher: Theatre Communications Group OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2005 Annotation: "Mistero Buffo" is Dario Fo's one-man tour de force, in which he creates his own subversive version of Biblical stories. Infused with the rhythmic drive of a jazz improvisation, the immediacy of a newspaper headline, and the epic scope of a historical novel, Fo and his wife/collaborator Franca Rame have performed "Mistero Buffo" throughout the world to over 10 million people. One of the major theatrical artists of the twentieth century, Italy's Dario Fo was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. Ron Jenkins' translations of Dario Fo have been performed across the country. He is the theater department chair at Wesleyan University. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - Italian - Drama | Religious & Liturgical - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion |
| Dewey: 852.914 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.60 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mistero Buffo is Dario Fo's one-man tour de force, in which he creates his own subversive version of Biblical stories. Infused with the rhythmic drive of a jazz improvisation, the immediacy of a newspaper headline, and the epic scope of a historical novel, Fo and his wife/collaborator Franca Rame have performed Mistero Buffo throughout the world to over 10 million people. One of the major theatrical artists of the twentieth century, Italy's Dario Fo was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. Ron Jenkins' translations of Dario Fo have been performed across the country. He is the theater department chair at Wesleyan University. |