Mistero Buffo

by Fo, Dario

• ISBN13: 9781559362719
• ISBN10: 1559362715
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-01
• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

A Scandal of Epic Proportions: Mistero Buffo
Translator's Introduction by Ron Jenkins	ix
MISTERO BUFFO	1
The Birth of the Giullare	7	(12)
The Birth of the Peasant	19	(8)
The Rite of the Goats and Mammuthones	27	(8)
The Massacre of the Innocents	35	(12)
The First Miracle of the Child Jesus	47	(20)
The Morality Play of the Blind Man and the Cripple	67	(18)
The Madonna Meets the Marys	85	(12)
The Resurrection of Lazarus	97	(8)
The Miracle of the Wedding at Cana	105	(10)
Fool's Play Under the Cross/The Crucifiers ("The Nailers")	115	(14)
Mary Under the Cross	129	(10)
The Story of Saint Benedetto of Norcia	139	(4)
Death and the Fool	143	(12)
Boniface VIII	155