Dario Fo, Nobel-winning playwright, dies aged 90

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian and agencies

The Nobel prizewinning playwright and actor Dario Fo, famous for his cutting political satire in plays such as The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, has died aged 90.

Fo, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1997, had been suffering lung problems for months and had been in hospital for 12 days, the Corriere della Sera newspaper reported.

Matteo Renzi, the Italian prime minister, sent his condolences on Thursday morning. “In Dario Fo, Italy has lost one of the great protagonists of the theatre, of culture, of the civic life of our country,” he said.

“His satire, research, his work on set design and his versatile artistic activities are the legacy of one of the world’s great Italians.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/oct/13/dario-fo-nobel-winning-playwright-dies-aged-90

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Rome and agencies
Thursday 13 October 2016 10.25 BST

[frazzled]

1. Thanks for posting

An important 20th century cultural figure. Although my memory is filled with allusions to his name, I must admit to never having read or seen one of his works. Mr. Frazzled remembers fondly attending a Dario Fo play at the Brecht Theater in the old East Berlin back in the 80s.