Italian dramatist and actor. His plays are predominantly political satires combining black humour with slapstick. They include
Morte accidentale di un anarchico/Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970),
Non si paga non si paga/Can't Pay? Won't Pay! (1974) and
L'Anomalo Bicefalo/The Abnormal Two-brainer (2003). Fo was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997.
As an actor he is best known for a one-man show,
Mistero buffo/Comic Mystery (1969), based on the medieval mystery plays.
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