Dario Fo, Translated by Ron Jenkins

Political farce

7m, 2f (to play various roles)

Various sets or unit set

The playwright was a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Gianni Agnelli, the head of Fiat, plans to replace 25,000 workers with robots when he has an automobile accident and is rescued by Antonio Berardi, a communist and one of the workers he has just sacked. A case of mistaken identity ensues as the mangled Agnelli is reconstructed by plastic surgeons into a dead ringer for Antonio! Hilarity piles upon hilarity as government agents, terrorists and wives try to figure out who is who.

"Fo's comic instinct and showmanship never let the message spoil a good show.... Lively slapstick fun." -Variety

"Happily combines the Marxism of both Harpo and Karl." -London Observer

FEE: $75 per performance.