Author

Contributions

  • Ron Jenkins (Translator) - Contributor

Publication

2001-04-27 - Grove Press

Language

English

Word Count

32,000 words, Guess

Page Count

128 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 4 more

Classifications

  • LCCPQ4866.O2J64313 2001
  • LCCPQ4866.O2 J64313 2001

Description

"Dario Fo is one of the world's most contemporary playwrights, forging subversive comedy, clowning, unusual linguistic experimentation, and brilliant playwrighting into a comedy of complete originality. A first-person monologue that bends and mutates language and historical fact, Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas is a retelling of Christopher Columbus's voyage to America. Told by a last-minute conscript assigned to clean the shipboard pig stalls, who goes on to be adopted by a tribe of Indians and help them fight conquistadors, it posits a riotous alternate history in which the dynamics between native and white, male and female, history and comedy are never what they seem."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

Faster! Faster! Let go the moorings!

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