{"product_id":"the-tricks-of-the-trade-by-dario-fo-9780413664402","title":"The Tricks of the Trade","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the 1980s, Dario Fo, Italy's best-known and most provocative satirical playwright, and his wife Franca Rame, the celebrated actress and feminist, conducted a series of performance-seminars around the world on the subject of acting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn places as diverse as London's Riverside Studios, Rome's Teatro Argentina, and Perugia's Free University of Alcatraz, Fo and Rame have revealed to rapt audiences the many facets of the actor's art – his or her \u003cem\u003eTricks of the Trade\u003c\/em\u003e. Tracing the life of the comic performer back to the itinerant jongleur and the skilful improvisations of later commedia dell'arte troupes, Fo's genius as both a player and synthesiser of the historical past allows him to resurrect before our eyes and ears a shadow performer upon whom all actors unwittingly base their work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUsing mime, masks, pieces of text, dance, action and snatches from songs, Fo and Franca Rame consolidate many months of their lecture demonstrations into a 'Six Day' workshop, a staged demonstration that is also a Fo-on-Fo one-man show.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is released to coincide with the paperback release of Dario Fo's autobiography \u003cem\u003eMy First Seven Years Plus a Few More\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471833383148,"sku":"9780413664402","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780413664402-the-tricks-of-the-trade.jpg?v=1775259250","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-tricks-of-the-trade-by-dario-fo-9780413664402","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}