A collection of one-woman plays.

"The morality play of the blind man & the cripple"--"The mother" (La Madre) - "I don't move, I don't scream, my voice is gone" (Lo Stupro) - "Waking up" (Il Risveglio) - Workshops - News clippings.

All home bed and church - More stories - Tales of the Resistance - Questions of terrorism and repression.

Dario Fo is Italy's leading contemporary performer/playwright, renowned throughout the world for his radical satires. This volume contains two major plays together with two more intimate one-act plays which he wrote with Franca Rame.

Mistero Buffo is Dario Fo's one-man tour de force, in which he creates his own subversive version of Biblical stories. Infused with the rhythmic drive of a jazz improvisation, the immediacy of a newspaper headline, and the epic scope of a historical novel, Fo and his wife/collaborator Franca Rame have performed Mistero Buffo throughout the world to over 10 million people. One of the major theatrical artists of the twentieth century, Italy's Dario Fo was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. Ron Jenkins' translations of Dario Fo have been performed across the country. He is the theater department chair at Wesleyan University.

An irrepressible fraudster known only as the Maniac is brought into Police Headquarters just as the officers are preparing for a judicial review of the recent 'accidental' death of a suspect in custody. Outwitting his captors, the Maniac dupes them into performing a farcical recreation of the incident, exposing the absurd corruption and terrifying idiocy at the heart of the system. Dario Fo and Franca Rame's riotous satire, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, has been widely performed around the world since its premiere in 1970. Tom Basden's hilarious, bang-up-to-date adaptation was first performed at Sheffield Theatres in September 2022.

A series of satirical one-woman monologues by the Italian husband-and-wife team of Dario Fo and Franca Rame, adapted by actress Estelle Parsons.