Dario Fo: Can't Pay! Won't Pay! (Sotto Paga! Non Si Paga!)

The play, a funny yet trenchant sociocritical farce, focuses on a single day in a chain supermarket when women, voicing their outrage at a yet another rise in prices, revolt and decide to pay only what they want for their bags full of groceries. This ends up being nothing, and the housewives embark on a looting spree, stuffing goods down their coats. 

Today, the comedy Can't Pay! Won't Pay! – both Fo's original tale of fed-up workers nicking groceries and its 21st-century reworking – still feel immediately relevant. The tensions explored in Fo’s comedy – rampant inflation, precarious jobs, unemployment, rising prices, poverty, the gap between rich and poor – feel very timely. The comedy’s most exciting aspect is Fo’s brilliant "black and white" statement: that it is always and incontrovertibly a handful of rich who do the stealing, and that the exploited eventually realize they simply don't have to put up with the rip-off anymore. With this uncompromising and straightforward logic, deliberately overlooking the complexity of the issue, the author potently undermines our prevailing social consensus on class inequality and its continued perpetuation. 

Ajda Valcl's take on Italian playwright Dario Fo’s Can't Pay? Won't Pay! was declared the best production by the jury at the 31st Days of Comedy, Vesna Pernarčič won the Best Comedy Actress Award and Ajda Valcl the Best Director Award. 
 

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