Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!
The Italians call it autoriduzione. We call it stealing. But Dario Fo’s 1974 farce was a response (or possibly an incitement) to the wave of popular protest that began with a group of Fiat workers refusing to pay increased bus fares and led to a whole sector of society helping itself.
The play begins with housewives Antonia and Margherita returning from a mission to liberate vegetables from the local supermarket. Yet their stick-in-the-mud husbands remain impervious to the kleptomania craze, forcing the women to conceal their stash in ever more compromising ways.
Add a couple of corrupt policemen, an undertaker and an old rogue in a bath chair, and you have a recipe for an evening that quickly descends into anarchy.
Cast & Crew
Cast
| Antonia | Angela Curran |
|---|---|
| Giovanni | Chris Darwin |
| Luigi | Bob Hewis |
| Margherita | Diane Whitley |
| Sergeant/Inspector/Old Man/Undertaker | David Boyce |
Crew | |
| Designer | Juliet Watkins |
| Director | Philip Partridge |
| Lighting Designer | Tony Mulvihill |
| Sound | Les Lawton |
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