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'Fed up with high prices in the supermarket? Frustrated by constant strikes? Frantic at rising train fares? Take the law into your own hands! And they did. Fast and furious comic chaos - Dario Fo's 1974 farce is, quite literally, a riot!'
Can't Pay? Won't Pay! was set for the first time in England against the backdrop of the 1974 "Who Governs Britain?" general election and the collapse of the Heath government in the face of nationwide strikes, an energy crisis, rising unemployment and the three day week.
Can't Pay? Won't Pay! is an hilarious, sharply satirical take on individual responsibility and politics, challenging today's audience to abandon political cynicism and take to the streets. It depicts working class women who have rebelled against the cost of living by taking goods from a store without paying. The plot concerns their efforts to conceal their bold decisions from their men folk and the police who are - as often in Fo - blundering figures of fun. The dnouement involves characters appearing and disappearing out of windows and doors - the kind of farcical business of which Fo is a master.
Dario Fo's many international awards and honours include the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature, an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Westminster and an Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.
Cast: Luan de Burgh, Michelle Seton, Allison Karayanes, Adam Buckles, Stephan Bessant
Costume Designer: Mia Flodquist , Set Designer: Rob Miles , Lighting Designer: Peter Jackson
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