Dario Fo, Nobel Prize-Winning & Controversial Playwright & Satirist, Dies at 90 by Ryan McPhee

Dario Fo, the Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright whose frequent collaborations with his wife Franca Rame drew universal dissension, died on October 13. His death, which followed two weeks of hospitalization in Milan for back pain, was confirmed to the New York Times by his Italian publisher, Chiarelettere. He was 90 years old. In 1984, Fo’s play Accidental Death of an Anarchist played Broadway’s Bela…

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