The Tricks of the Trade - Brossura

Fo, Dario

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ISBN 10: 0413664406 ISBN 13: 9780413664402

Casa editrice: Methuen Drama, 1992

Riassunto

Throughout the 1980s, Dario Fo, Italy's best known and most provocative satirical playwright, and his wife Franca Rame, the celebrated actress and feminist, conducted a series of performance-seminars around the world on the subject of acting. In places as diverse as London's Riverside Studios, Rome's Teatro Argentina and Perugia's Free University of Alcatraz, Fo and Rame have revealed to rapt audiences the many facets of the actor's art - his or her 'Tricks of the Trade'. Tracing the life of the comic performer back to the itinerant jongleur and the skillful improvisations of later commedia dell'arte troupes, Fo's genius as both a player and synthesiser of the historical past allows him to resurrect before our eyes and ears a shadow performer upon whom all actors unwittingly base their work. Using mime, masks, pieces of text, dance, action and snatches from songs, Fo and Franca Rame consolidate many months of their lecture demonstrations into a 'Six Day' workshop, a staged demonstration that is also a Fo-on-Fo one-man show. It is released to coincide with the paperback release of Dario Fo's autobiography "My First Seven Years Plus a Few More".

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L'autore:

A popular and controversial Italian playwright, actor and director, Dario Fo has earned international acclaim for his political satires and farces, leading the field in political satire in Europe for over thirty years. He was born in 1926 in Sangiano, in the province of Varese and his family was active in the anti-fascist Resistance. In university he studied architecture but soon become involved in the theatre. His best known plays include Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970), We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay (1974), Trumpets and Raspberries (1981), The Open Couple (1983), Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman (1984), The Pope and the Witch (1989), Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas (1992) and Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997 for ""emulating the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden.

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• Editore: Methuen Drama
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0413664406
• ISBN 13: 9780413664402
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 228