I remember reading a beautiful article by the New York Times in October of 2016 when playwright Dario Fo passed away. It was one of the most comprehensive obituaries I had ever read and it sparked my curiosity about Fo's life and what inspired him to write such moving, controversial works. The Times article stated that Fo was "best known for two works: "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" (1970), a play based on the case of an Italian railroad worker who was either thrown or fell from the upper story of a Milan police station while being questioned on suspicion of terrorism; and his one-man show "Mistero Buffo" (Comic Mystery), written in 1969 and frequently revised and updated in the decades that followed, taking wild comic aim at politics and especially religion. After a 1977 version of "Mistero Buffo" was broadcast in Italy, the Vatican denounced it as 'the most blasphemous show in the history of television.' The c...
100+ YEARS OF THE GREAT ITALIAN MOVIEMAKERS