Imagine a cross between Bertolt Brecht and Lenny Bruce and you may begin to have an idea of the scope of Fo’s anarchic art,” Mel Gussow wrote in The New York Times in 1983.

Basing their art on the tradition of the medieval jester and the improvisation techniques of commedia dell’arte, Mr. Fo and Ms. Rame thrilled, dismayed and angered audiences around the world. Together they staged thousands of performances, in conventional theaters, factories occupied by striking workers, university sit-ins, city parks, prisons and even deconsecrated churches.

“We’ve had to endure abuse, assaults by the police, insults from the right-thinking and violence,” Mr. Fo said in his Nobel lecture.

Basing their art on the tradition of the medieval jester and the improvisation techniques of commedia dell’arte, Mr. Fo and Ms. Rame thrilled, dismayed and angered audiences around the world. Together they staged thousands of performances, in conventional theaters, factories occupied by striking workers, university sit-ins, city parks, prisons and even deconsecrated churches.

“We’ve had to endure abuse, assaults by the police, insults from the right-thinking and violence,” Mr. Fo said in his Nobel lecture.

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Dave Douglas Keystone jazz group YouTube Fatty’s (arbuckle) plucky pup

(Note all three artists, jazz contemporary composer Dave Douglas, deceased Italian radical theatrical Dario photo and movie producer comic and criminal fatty Arbuckle all share a birthday March 24 Aries; Douglas  indeed has an album of soundtracks to silent fatty Arbuckle shorts; Douglas performed for Earthwise productions in November engage at Mitchell Park with Clarence Penn, Carmen  Rothwell, Jeff Parker:)