Saturday, November 22
8:00 pm
PERFORMANCE
1. The Birth of the Jongleur, 2. The Birth of the Worker, & 3. The Fool at the Foot of the Cross with a Prologue by Machiavelli
Adapted & Performed by Tony Palmieri
Dario Fo was born in 1926 in Lombardy, Italy. He began his career as a comic and mime and became a highly successful actor, director and writer of satirical comedies. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997.
In addition to conventional theater, Fo has performed in factories and workers’ clubs. His plays include “Accidental Death of an Anarchist” and “We Won’t Pay, We Won’t Pay. The material performed tonight is from “Mistero Buffo” and is dedicated to Charles Chaplin.
Since his injury, Tony Palmieri has performed in two one-man shows — “Shakespeare on Wheels,” directed by the late Judy Magee, and Howard Zinn’s “Marx in Soho,” directed and co-produced by his good friend Michael Murnin. Before his injury, he did a wide variety of roles ranging from Bottom in “Midsummer Nights Dream” to Henry Higgins in “My Fair Lady.”