A Woman Alone' & Other Plays (Modern Plays) - Softcover

Fo, Dario

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413640302 ISBN 13: 9780413640307

Publisher: Methuen Drama, 1991

Synopsis

Twenty monologues for women

Twenty monologues in this volume which range from the deeply serious to the extravagantly comic and accessible to a wide range of audiences "The pieces are comic, grotesque, on purpose. First of all because we women have been crying for two thousand years. So let's laugh now, even at ourselves" - Franca Rame

"Set at the point where reality and ideology rub up against each other, [these] monologues are vivid, concise and entertaining comments on the female condition. . .comic-but-angry, raw-but-precise" - Independent

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0413640302
• ISBN 13: 9780413640307
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224