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 | | The Tricks of the Trade by Dario Fo, Stuart Hood (Editor), Joe Farrell (Translator) ISBN-10: 9780878300075 ISBN-10: 0-87830-007-4 ISBN-13: 9780878300075 ISBN-13: 978-0-87830-007-5 Hardcover 1991-05 Routledge Find Lowest Price |
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Amazon.com When Dario Fo won the 1997 Nobel Prize for literature, establishments everywhere erupted in anger. Here was an anticlerical, obscene, communist clown receiving the world's top literary accolade. As this collection of his essays and lectures shows, Fo has such a unique vision that his mission as clown/playwright requires him to be all those other things. What's interesting about The Tricks of the Trade is not his politics, but the incredible amount of research he's done on 2,000 years' worth of jesters, minstrels, and political clowns, whom he believes have changed the course of history. | ||
Product Description Clown, political activist, playwright, actor: Dario Fo is an unclassifiable genius of the modern theatre. In his "mini-manual for actors," Fo lays bare the tools of his craft. With the assistance of his wife, playwright Franca Rame, he explains how text, song, humor, mime and political intelligence can be fused into brilliant "popular theatre." | ||
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A freeing work from a brilliant actor/scholar. In this book Dario Fo articulates the relationship between actor and audience in a way only someone who has accepted the physical and mental demands of the acting craft can do. Fo demonstrates he is one part actor, one part scholar, and one part inspired artist. Each page illustrates the line between how an actor acts and their audience cannot be separated from themselves, their society, or from the history of the craft. If nothing else, Fo's joy in performance helps explain why actors remain central to entertainment and to society. | ||
Donald Sutherland praised this book on Charlie Rose 9/10/98 Donald Sutherland praised this book on Charlie Rose 9/10/98Donald Sutherland praised this book on Charlie Rose 9/10/98. That's good enough for me. I plan to buy it for my daughter - a fledgling Commedia artist. | ||