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Archangels Don't Play Pinball
Short Play, Comedy / 3f, 7m
Dario Fo, Roger MacAvoy, Anna Guigni
Archangels Don't Play Pinball is a 1959 two-act play by Dario Fo. The play uses the metaphor of a pinball machine—a new innovation in Italy at the time and one which Fo and his wife Franca Rame were fond of— to convey mechanisation and conspicuous consumption.
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Cast Size
3f, 7m -
Subgenre
Farce -
Target Audience
Adult
Details
Summary
First performed at the Bristol Old Vic, this fast moving play is one of Fo’s most accomplished farces and the first to combine political satirical content in a Brechtian form that relies on paradoxical situations to make its point. Set in the industrial outskirts of Milan, it follows a group of louts and their butt, Lofty, a simple man caught in the maze of government bureaucracy who tries to extricate himself from the pranks and petty crimes.
Cast Attributes
- Setting Multiple interiors and exteriors.
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £70 per performance plus VAT when applicable.
Authors
Dario Fo
Roger MacAvoy