Sohaib Alam1 & Farhan Ahmad2
1Assistant Professor, Department of English, College of Sciences and Humanities, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. ORCID: 0000-0002-9972-9357. Email: s.alam@psau.edu.sa (Corresponding Author)
2Assistant Professor, Department of English Studies, Faculty of Indian and Foreign Languages, Akal University, Talwandi Sabo, India. ORCID: 0000-0001-5710-7800. Email: farhan_eng@auts.ac.in
Volume 12, Number 6, 2020 I Full Text PDF
DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.22
Abstract
Theatre provides Dario Fo with a unique vantage point through which he vents out his thoughts on issues of class, justice, equality and lays bare in his performances that are comic, derisive, and outspoken people’s discomfort with the prevailing order. They are an indictment of the establishment’s perceived apathy and neglect of the oppressed groups. He does not let the zany spirit of his performances to overshadow his art but redirects it in a constructive and meaningful way.
Keywords: performance, folklore, popular culture, hegemony, dissent