Can't Pay? Won't Pay!
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Can't Pay? Won't Pay![1][2] (Italian: Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga!,[3] also translated We Can't Pay? We Won't Pay! and Low Pay? Don't Pay![2]) is a play originally written in Italian by Dario Fo in 1974.[4] Regarded as Fo's best-known play internationally after Morte accidentale di un anarchico,[5] it had been performed in 35 countries by 1990.[6] Considered a Marxist[7] political farce,[8] it is a comedy about consumer backlash against high prices.[9][10]
Can't Pay? Won't Pay! | |
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Written by | Dario Fo |
Original language | Italian |
Subject | Consumer backlash against high prices |
Genre | Political satire |
It was the first show performed in the Palazzina Liberty on 3 October 1974.[11] A North American English-language adaptation by R. G. Davis was published in 1984.[12][13] The American premiere was performed by the San Francisco Mime Troupe.[14]
The title of the original English translation in 1975 by Lino Pertile,[1] Can't Pay? Won't Pay!, has passed into the English language.[2]