We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!
by Dario Fo
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Dario Fo, one of Italy's foremost playwrights, is a rarity- a Marxist with a sense of humor. This hilarious farce, a success Off Broadway and across the U.S., is set in motion when a housewife comes home with groceries she has swiped as part of a spontaneous community action where 300 women did the same. In her effort to keep her secret from her husband, she hides some of the groceries under her best friend's raincoat. Her husband and his friend the accomplice's husband notice the bulge, of show more course; but they believe the explanation that the accomplice is pregnant! Hilarity is piled upon hilarity as the characters try to extricate themselves from the mess they have gotten into. Eventually, they all unite to support the spontaneous resistance to eviction in their housing project. show lessTags
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I read this as part of the omnibus [b:The Collected Plays, Vol. 1: We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! and Other Works|74221|The Collected Plays, Vol. 1 We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! and Other Works|Dario Fo|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1386924209s/74221.jpg|71814] translated by Ron Jenkins.
I really enjoyed the satire in this! Jenkins must have updated some of the text as there was at least on Hilary Clinton reference (!). I am sorry that I missed the first English production of this play, which happened at the ART not far from my home... however, even though it would be better to see it performed, this is a play that reads well. I look forward to reading some more Fo!
I really enjoyed the satire in this! Jenkins must have updated some of the text as there was at least on Hilary Clinton reference (!). I am sorry that I missed the first English production of this play, which happened at the ART not far from my home... however, even though it would be better to see it performed, this is a play that reads well. I look forward to reading some more Fo!
I read this as part of the omnibus "The Collected Plays, Vol. 1: We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! and Other Works" translated by Ron Jenkins.
I really enjoyed the satire in this! Jenkins must have updated some of the text as there was at least on Hilary Clinton reference (!). I am sorry that I missed the first English production of this play, which happened at the ART not far from my home... however, even though it would be better to see it performed, this is a play that reads well. I look forward to reading some more Fo!
I really enjoyed the satire in this! Jenkins must have updated some of the text as there was at least on Hilary Clinton reference (!). I am sorry that I missed the first English production of this play, which happened at the ART not far from my home... however, even though it would be better to see it performed, this is a play that reads well. I look forward to reading some more Fo!
La rebelión de una mujer, Antonia, que junto a otras muchas mujeres de su barrio, en el momento de hacer la compra en el supermercado, comprueba indignada, que los precios han vuelto a subir escandalosamente otra vez más y deciden rebelarse y llevarse los alimentos sin pagar o pagando un precio altamente rebajado. Antonia vive con Juan, un honrado obrero de izquierdas. Son un matrimonio humilde, sumido por las circunstancias de un país en crisis. Antonia se ve envuelta en una serie de mentiras en las que incluye a Margarita, su vecina casada con Luis, compañero de trabajo de Juan y con el que comparte una sincera amistad. Como siempre en estos casos, el engaño crece hasta que todos se ven envueltos en situaciones insostenibles, show more estallando el conflicto y sobre todo mostrando las penalidades por las que atraviesa una sociedad, en la que el paro y la inflación económica son los detonantes de una serie de movilizaciones y enfrentamientos entre la clase obrera y los empresarios, mientras la clase política y los sindicatos piden tranquilidad y orden, aunque crezca la injusticia. La única alternativa que tienen es la desobediencia civil. show less
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Dario Fo was born in Sangiano, Lombardy, Italy on March 24, 1926. He was educated at the Brera Fine Arts Academy in Milan. During World War II, he was conscripted into the army but fled and went into hiding with the help of his parents, who were active in the resistance. After the war, he became a stage designer but eventually became a playwright, show more director, and performer. He wrote more than 80 plays including Mistero Buffo (Comic Mystery), Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Fedayin, The Open Couple and an Ordinary Day, The Pope and the Witch, and Plays, Two written with his wife Franca Rame. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997. He died on October 13, 2016 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga!
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