Word: grand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tossing waters off Bermuda and ordered the astronauts to stay in orbit for one additional revolution. Thus, as the earth revolved beneath Apollo's orbit, the next pass over the Atlantic enabled the astronauts to splash down far from the storm, in the calm waters off Grand Turk Island, in the Bahamas. There, the only whitecaps were those churned up by recovery helicopters...
...ticket costs 80?. No critics are invited. The playgoers are peasants and factory workers. The show is called Grande Pantomima con Bandiere e Pupazzi Piccoli e Medi (Grand Pantomime with Banners and Puppets Small and Medium), and it is a phenomenal theatrical event. On its present tour, which began last October, it has played in 138 different towns and villages of northern and central Italy, mostly on one-night stands, to audiences ranging from 500 to 3,000. Everywhere the reception is astonishing. One evening recently, in the tiny village of San Martino in Fiume, 540 of the 800 inhabitants...
...incites this kind of turnout is Dario Fo, 42, actor, playwright, dramatic apostle to the proletariat, and currently Italy's most incendiary theatrical personality. Social protest flows from Fo's work but it bubbles with laughter. He conceived of Grand Pantomime as a kind of cartoon political morality play about Italy from World War II to the present. Intransigently anti-Fascist and bent on exposing what Fo considers crypto-Fascism, the play is deeply concerned with the exploitation of workers under whatever form of economy and government. Fo calls his own political stance "extreme free left...
...working class so long." In the village of Vignola, the audience was so aroused by this argument that a group called for flags and guns to march on the nearby factory and take it over. The march did not take place. As one worker says to another in Grand Pantomime: "We can't kill the boss. After all, he has a mamma like us all and he pays for our local football team...
...year alone, including performances in Germany, England, France and most of the Iron Curtain countries. Until recently, he and his blonde actress-wife Franca Rame could command combined annual earnings of $120,000. While Fo's plays still garner respectable royalties, he settles for $11.20 per diem in Grand Pantomime, which comes close to the average ticket price for a Broadway musical...