Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!
Comedy by Dario Fo
Dicker Turm
Rents are sky-rocketing, not to speak of electricity and water bills as well as supermarket prices: How are normal people supposed to make ends meet? Antonia thinks: That’s enough! – and pilfers a nearby supermarket with a group of women. Unfortunately, they reckoned without their husbands who are surprisingly honest. On top of that, the police start to search every flat in the neighbourhood. But exceptional circumstances require exceptional imagination – A quality the women in Dario Fo’s play definitely demonstrate with their quick and brave moves.
Entitled »Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga!« in the Italian original, the author’s work decries social ills. It was developed in 1974 and reworked in 2009 in the context of the financial crisis. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Fo was a master of comedy and got arrested several times on stage for instigating people to carry out small day-to-day revolutions.
The production of the decorative parts is carried out in the workshops of the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg.
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