Dario Luigi Angelo Fo was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Litera
Fo in 1985
Dario Fo and Franca Rame with their newborn son Jacopo
Can't Pay? Won't Pay! is a play originally written in Italian by Dario Fo in 1974. Regarded as Fo's best-known play internationally after Morte accidentale di un anarchico, it had been performed in 35
Dario Fo
…Diocese of Rome, as "the most blasphemous show in the history of television". The title of the original English translation of Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga! (Can't Pay? Won't Pay!) has passed into the English language, and the play is described as capturing "something universal in actions and reactions of the working class". His…
Two stickers, still on their backing sheet, from the group "Luton Against The Poll Tax", using the slogan "Can't pay won't pay", popularised by the Dario Fo play of that name