Dario Fo was a playwright, actor and clown who mocked the powerful. He studied architecture in Milan before turning to theatre. With his wife, actress Franca Rame, he founded touring companies that played in factories and town squares. His farce Accidental Death of an Anarchist satirised a real police cover-up. Mistero Buffo retold medieval stories in an invented comic language. The Catholic Church and Italian television often attacked his work. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1997. He kept performing into his eighties.
Dario Luigi Angelo Fo (Italian:; 24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature.
