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 Literature. In his time he was "arguably the most widely performed contemporary playwright in world theatre". Much of his dramatic work depends on improvisation and comprises the recovery of "illegitimate" forms of theatre, such as those performed by giullari and, more famously, the ancient Italian style of commedia dell'arte.
Dario Fo in November 1984
Dario Fo and Franca Rame with their newborn son Jacopo
Fo with his wife Franca Rame and their son Jacopo
Dario Fo in 1976
Giuseppe Piero "Beppe" Grillo is an Italian comedian, actor, blogger, and politician.
Beppe Grillo in 2011
Beppe Grillo (on the right) with Pippo Baudo during the 1980s
Grillo alongside Anna Oxa and Stefania Casini in 1978
Beppe Grillo in Bologna speaking at V-Day in 2007.