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Mistero Buffo; Accidental Death...; Trumpets and Raspberries; Virtuous Burglar; One Was Nude...
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Bloomsbury USA, Mar 9, 1992 - Drama - 382 pages


Mistero Buffo, or The Comic Mysteries, is based on research into mediaeval mystery plays; The Accidental Death of an Anarchist concerns the "accidental" (or not) death of an anarchist railwork who "fell" (or was pushed) to his death from a police headquarters window in 1969; Trumpets and Raspberries is "A deeply subversive farce" (The Guardian) in which the boss of Italy's biggest car manufacturer FIAT, is mistaken for a left wing terrorist.


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Review: Plays 1: Mistero Buffo / Accidental Death of an Anarchist / Trumpets and Raspberries / The Virtuous Burglar / One Was Nude and One Wore Tails

User Review  - Chris - Goodreads

This is the power of theater: making deeply passionate political statements so damn funny that ever the dissenters need to laugh. Fo turns socio-polical/religious themes and presents them in the classical form of farce to make the absurdity of contemporary hubris pop even more. Read full review

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About the author (1992)

Dario Fo is admired throughout the world for his dazzling radical satires, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.

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