Abducting Diana

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Bloomsbury Academic, 1994 - Drama - 116 pages
Another farce by Dario Fo, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature. Millionaire media boss Diane Forbes-McKaye is kidnapped--but this ruthless magnate proves more resourceful than her clumsy abductors. Are things what they seem? Who is in charge? Who masterminded the abduction? Into this cocktail add a gun-toting priest, a deranged altar boy, a kidnapper hiding in the frifge, a pyromaniac, and and an explosive climax.

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Contents

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Section 2
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Section 3
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Copyright

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About the author (1994)

Dario Fo was born in Sangiano, Lombardy, Italy on March 24, 1926. He was educated at the Brera Fine Arts Academy in Milan. During World War II, he was conscripted into the army but fled and went into hiding with the help of his parents, who were active in the resistance. After the war, he became a stage designer but eventually became a playwright, director, and performer. He wrote more than 80 plays including Mistero Buffo (Comic Mystery), Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Fedayin, The Open Couple and an Ordinary Day, The Pope and the Witch, and Plays, Two written with his wife Franca Rame. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997. He died on October 13, 2016 at the age of 90.

Bibliographic information

TitleAbducting Diana
Modern playwrights
Oberon Bks
Oberon Modern Plays
AuthorsDario Fo, Stephen Stenning
Translated byRupert Lowe
Editionreprint
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 1994
ISBN1870259459, 9781870259453
Length116 pages
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Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Drama / European / General
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