Viva Fo! The Playwright As Anarchist

Cultural Weekly: There are many way of looking at a writer’s lifelong accomplishments, but few have been as brazen, political and uninhibited as the baldly anti-fascist plays of Dario Fo. Fo, who died in 2016, was a satirist, a modern-day Molière, an exuberant and prolific peasant-clown. In partnership with his wife, the equally engaged writer/performer Franca Rame, Fo put his outlandish comedic excesses in the service of slapping down hypocrisy wherever he found it—especially politics, where it is always abundant.