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The centenary celebrations of Dario Fo's birth, one of the greatest figures of twentieth-century theater and culture and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997, will open in Rome on March 24th with an event at the Ministry of Culture and a grand evening at the Teatro Sistina. Since 2020, all texts and performances have been published under the co-authorship of Dario Fo and Franca Rame, who was Dario's lifelong companion, both emotionally and artistically. An actor, theater director, writer, and painter, born March 24, 1926, in Sangiano (Varese) and died at the age of 90 on October 13, 2016, in Milan, Fo is, along with Franca Rame, the most performed Italian author abroad. The evening at the Sistina will feature his son Jacopo Fo and his daughters Jaele and Mattea, artists and friends who will alternate on stage. Among the first confirmed cast members are Ambra Angiolini, Carlo Petrini, Chiara Francini, Moni Ovadia, Anna Foglietta, Lodo Guenzi, and the cast of "Accidental Death of an Anarchist," director Giorgio Gallione, photographer Guido Harari, Mario Pirovano, Pino Strabioli, Marco Travaglio, and Ascanio Celestini. Simultaneous events will take place in many Italian and international cities.
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