Dario Fo is a Nobel Prize winning Italian playwright and an eminent actor and theater director. Born in Lombardy's Province of Varese, Italy, he learnt the art of storytelling from most unusual sources, such as, his farmer grandfather who traveled around in a big wagon selling his produce, fishermen and glassblowers who came to gossip in the piazzas and taverns. As a result, when he took up pen to write scripts, they became instantly popular. He depends much on improvisation and his style of writing resembles that of medieval storytellers. All his life, he and his wife Franca Rame have worked together to produce plays that uphold the dignity of the oppressed and in doing so they have provoked those in authority to such as extent that they have not only been hounded by Italian government, but have also been denied entry into USA. In spite of that Fo has kept on working and many of his seventy odd plays have been translated into thirty languages. Today, he is one of most widely performed playwrights and has become an important figure in today’s world theater.
