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The fact plays like this can stay so current. Constant references are made to the right laying waste and the people feeling betrayed by the left. This fits perfectly with the state of things at the moment. It's almost as if Mr. Fo had a crystal ball when he was putting pen to paper. The audience reaction has been great so far too. People have found something with such an underlying message of uncaring governments, gun happy police and a terrible economy reassuringly hopeful. It's message is given across with charm and wit rather than lashings of doom and gloom. When you consider the play was written in 1975 it really does speak volumes.
I do get strangely inspired by men like Dario Fo. It's their gift to see things not only as they are but as they will be. Some of the language may need updating but not one issue raised in this play could be interchanged for anything.
See if there is anyone who has done contextual or critical studies about drama from this period that agrees with you? Expand and back up your ideas with evidence form others in your filed with expert knowledge. Or find equivalent knowledge form other professional/academic sources that could inform your point of view - social? cultural?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.geocities.ws/dariofoarchive/playography.html
http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2011/10/22/cant-pay-wont-pay-from-dario-fos-play-to-our-contemporary-greek-dystopia/
Maybe you can add a more theatrical perspective? what about the craft of the play and the characters?
http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/sr273/art.htm