From: beowulfalley11@gmail.com [mailto:beowulfalley11@gmail.com] On Behalf
Of Michael Fenlason
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 4:02 PM
Subject: Tucsonstages release for We Won't Pay
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PLEASE CONTACT
MICHAEL FENLASON
520-882-0555
theatre@beowulfalley.org
WE WON'T PAY! WE WON'T PAY!
A comedy
By Nobel Prize-winning playwright
Dario Fo
Beowulf Alley Theatre Company presents Dario Fo's hilarious farce about
housewives in an accidental revolution Friday and Saturday at 7:30PM and
Sunday at 2:30PM, February 3rd through the 19th at Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11
S. 6th Avenue in downtown Tucson. For more information, call 520-882-0555 or
visit beowulfalley.org. Tickets are
$23 the day of the show or $21 online. Discounts available for students,
seniors, military personnel and teachers.
Dario Fo, one of Italy's foremost playwrights, is a rarity-a Marxist with a
sense of humor. This hilarious farce, a success Off-Broadway and across the
U.S., is set in motion when a housewife comes home with groceries she has
swiped as part of a spontaneous community action where 300 women did the
same. In her effort to keep her secret from her husband, she hides some of
the groceries under her best friend's raincoat. Her husband and his friend,
the accomplice's husband, notice the bulge, of course, but they believe the
explanation that the accomplice is pregnant! Hilarity is piled upon hilarity
as the characters try to extricate themselves from the mess they have gotten
into. Eventually, they all unite to support the spontaneous resistance to
eviction in their housing project. This translation was prepared in
consultation with Dario Fo and Franca Rame in 1999 for its premiere at the
American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA.
"The work of a social reformer with a fractured funny bone . . . Mr.
Fo's manic farce should be obligatory viewing for anyone battling, i.e.,
succumbing to, the high cost of living." - The New York Times
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