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Franca Rame

A Woman on Stage

Franca Rame( )
Author: Rame, Franca
Fo, Dario
Fo, Iacopo
Cottino-Jones, Marga
Piccolo, Pina
Botta, Anna
d'Arcangeli, Liciana
Scuderi, Antonio
Farrell, Joseph
Editor: Valeri, Walter
Introduction by: Valeri, Walter
Translator: Jenkins, Ron
ISBN:978-1-884419-25-6
Publication Date:Jan 2000
Publisher:Bordighera Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $18.00
Book Description:

Essays. Drama. In Italian and English. Franca Rame is an actress, dramatist, and lecturer of international prestige. She has collaborated with husband Dario Fo as stage performer, writer, and editor of dozens of plays and monologues. Edited by Walter Valeri, a visiting artist since 1997 at Harvard's American Repertory Theater, A WOMAN ON STAGE is a compilation of monologues and commentary on the perfomances that made Franca Rame famous. Includes Sex? Thanks, Don't Mind If I Do! by...
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Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General
Book Weight:0.875 Pounds
Author Biography
Rame, Franca (Author)
Dario Fo was born in Sangiano, Lombardy, Italy on March 24, 1926. He was educated at the Brera Fine Arts Academy in Milan. During World War II, he was conscripted into the army but fled and went into hiding with the help of his parents, who were active in the resistance. After the war, he became a stage designer but eventually became a playwright, director, and performer.

He wrote more than 80 plays including Mistero Buffo (Comic Mystery), Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Fedayin, The Open Couple and an Ordinary Day, The Pope and the Witch, and Plays, Two written with his wife Franca Rame. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997. He died on October 13, 2016 at the age of 90.

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