Authors: Dario Fo, Ron Jenkins, Franca Rame (Editor), Ron Jenkins
ISBN-13: 9781559362719, ISBN-10: 1559362715
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Date Published: December 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
One of the major theatrical artists of the 20th century, Italy's Dario Fo, togther with Franca Rame, his wife and creative partner, have been creating a theatrical foray uniquely their own for more than fifty years. One of the world's most produced playwrights, Fo was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature. Ron Jenkins holds a doctorate from Harvard and a masters in buffoonery from the Ringling Brothers Clown College. His translations of Dario Fo and Hoshua Sobol have been performed at theatres around the country. He is the author of Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Artful Laughter and is the chair and artistic director of the theatre department at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
Nobel Prize-winner Dario Fo's quintessential work.
A Scandal of Epic Proportions: Mistero Buffo Translator's Introduction by Ron Jenkins | ||
Mistero Buffo | 1 | |
The Birth of the Giullare | 7 | |
The Birth of the Peasant | 19 | |
The Rite of the Goats and Mammuthones | 27 | |
The Massacre of the Innocents | 35 | |
The First Miracle of the Child Jesus | 47 | |
The Morality Play of the Blind Man and the Cripple | 67 | |
The Madonna Meets the Marys | 85 | |
The Resurrection of Lazarus | 97 | |
The Miracle of the Wedding at Cana | 105 | |
Fool's Play Under the Cross/The Crucifiers ("The Nailers") | 115 | |
Mary Under the Cross | 129 | |
The Story of Saint Benedetto of Norcia | 139 | |
Death and the Fool | 143 | |
Boniface VIII | 155 |