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Low Pay? Don't Pay!

by Dario Fo - £10.99  A & C Black Publishers Ltd (2010)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781408131039 | ISBN 10: 140813103x

An uproarious new version of Dario Fo’s frenetic farce Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! which, although set in Italy, has an all too familiar ring to it.
 
Housewives Antonia and Margherita, fed up with high prices in the supermarket, take matters into their own hands and start shoplifting. Keen to keep their light-fingered antics from their husbands, Giovanni and Luigi – not to mention the police – the women are forced to resort to more and more inventive hiding places, and more and more elaborate cover stories, in this legendary comedy.
 
Nobel prize winner Dario Fo is Italy’s leading contemporary playwright, renowned for his hilarious satires including Accidental Death of an Anarchist. He has re-written his classic farce Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! to take into account the global banking crisis and this translation, by world-leading Fo scholar Joseph Farrell, hints at UK current affairs too, including the credit crunch and MPs' expenses scandal. Although first written in 1970, this updated farce is still very relevant to today's state of affairs.

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