Mistero Buffo

Wed Jul 04, 2018 to
Thu Jul 05, 2018

21:00

Location

Paphos Ancient Odeon
Paphos, Paphos

THOC
Phone: 77772717

Description

THOC presents for the first time in Cyprus Dario Fo's comedy "Mistero Buffo".

It is recognised as one of the most controversial and popular spectacles in postwar European theatre and its broadcast in Italy prompted the Vatican to denounce it as "the most blasphemous show in the history of television"

Mistero buffo is a series of brief monologues with Biblical themes, drawn from the Biblical apocrypha and popular tales of the life of Christ. The performance texts are in a mixture of Italian, dialect and grammelot – a constructed or rather extemporised language that draws on, and mixes up, regional languages.

Fo's work originates in the surviving texts and descriptions of the giullari, itinerant players of medieval times, who would travel to towns and villages, bringing the latest news.

Director: Kostas Gakis

(in Greek)