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Franca Rame

Italian actress and politician (–)

Franca Rame

In office
28 April &#;– 28 April
ConstituencyPiedmont
Born()18 July
Parabiago, Kingdom of Italy
Died29 May () (aged&#;83)
Milan, Italy
Political partyItaly of Values
Spouse

Dario Fo

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(m.&#;)&#;
ChildrenJacopo Fo
Parent(s)Domenico Rame
Emilia Valdini
OccupationTheatre actress, playwright
Website

Franca Rame (18 July &#; 29 May ) was an Italian theatre actress, playwright and political activist.

She was married to Nobel laureate playwright Dario Fo and is the mother of writer Jacopo Fo.[1] Fo dedicated his Nobel Prize to her.[2]

Biography

Franca Rame was born in Parabiago, Lombardy, Italy, in ,[3] into a family with a long theatre tradition.

She made her theatrical debut in Shortly thereafter, she met Dario Fo, whom she married in Their son, Jacopo was born on 31 March In , she co-founded the Dario Fo–Franca Rame Theatre Company in Milan, with Fo as the director and writer, and Rame the leading actress and administrator.[4]

Rame continued working with Fo through many plays and several theatre companies, popular success and government censorship.

She was active in Soccorso Rosso (Red Aid), writing letters and providing books for prisoners and assisting their families and lawyers.[5] In the s, Rame began writing plays (often stage monologues) of her own, such as Grasso è bello! and Tutta casa, letto e chiesa, which displayed a markedly feminist bent.

In March , fascists who were reportedly commissioned by high-ranking officials in Milan's Carabinieri (Italian gendarmerie) abducted Rame, held her at gunpoint and dumped her in a van.

They raped her, beat her, burnt her with cigarettes, slashed her with razor blades and left her in a park.[6][7] She returned to the stage after two months with new anti-fascist monologues.

Rame became a member of the PCI in [8] She was a member of the Italian Senate representing the centre-left anti-corruption Italy of Values (IdV) party.[9] In , she was designated candidate for President of Italy by IdV's leader, Antonio Di Pietro, but she obtained only 24 votes on the first ballot of the presidential election.

From she was, also with her husband, an independent member of the Communist Refoundation Party.[10]

She died in Milan in , at the age of 83, and is buried at the city's Monumental Cemetery.[3]

Partial filmography

References

  1. ^Mitchell , p. 55
  2. ^Mitchell , p.

  3. ^ abJohn Francis Lane (29 May ).

    Franca rame biography Accadeva Oggi. Elena Shamova. In the s, Rame and Fo's political views hindered their entry into the United States. Article Talk.

    "Franca Rame obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 May

  4. ^Mitchell , p. 61
  5. ^Mitchell , pp.

    Il monologo scritto per Franca Rame che tutti vogliono: Franca Rame was born in Parabiago , Lombardy , Italy, in , [ 3 ] into a family with a long theatre tradition. Accadeva Oggi. Read Edit View history. Franca Rame was all of these things; a great, beautiful, and cultured woman capable of transforming the tragedy of the rape that had struck her into one of the most emotional theatrical monologues, ever.

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  6. ^Kuennecke, Beret (April ). "Resistance Takes Centre Stage". Review.
  7. ^Mitchell , p.
  8. ^Mitchell , p.

    Franca rame senatrice Download as PDF Printable version. The Franca Rame Garden, in Adriano district - a splendid park to be lived to the full, as if it were a stage of daily life, art and culture that the city of Milano wanted to dedicate to one of the most important female voices that lived in the city; and Palazzina Liberty "Liberty Palace" inside Vittorio Formentano Park, which hosts musical events and performances of free theatre during the year. They encountered censorship on television in , prompting them to leave the project. Io mi concentro sulle parole delle canzoni; il cuore mi si sta spaccando, non voglio uscire dalla confusione che ho.

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  9. ^"Franca Rame's resignation letter"(PDF) (in Italian). Archived from the original(PDF) on 20 October Retrieved 5 April
  10. ^"Franca Rame". Official PRC website (Regional Federation of Lombardy) (in Italian).[permanent dead link&#;]

Further reading

  • D'Angeli, Concetta & Soriani, Simone (eds).

    Coppia d'arte. Dario Fo e Franca Rame, Pisa, Plus,

  • Soriani, Simone.

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  • Il monologo scritto per Franca Rame che tutti vogliono
  • Franca Rame – Broadway Play Publishing Inc

    • Franca Rame, l'altra metà del cielo. "Fermenti", n. , , pp.

  • d'Arcangeli, Luciana and Pagliaro, Annamaria (eds). “Dario Fo & Franca Rame. Beyond the Rules”, Spunti e Ricerche,Volume 31, , published in
  • d'Arcangeli, Luciana.

  • Il monologo scritto per Franca Rame che tutti vogliono

  • "Franca Rame’s Dowry:&#; How the Rame Family Tradition Lives on in the Theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame" in Donatella Fischer (ed.) The Tradition of the Actor-Author in Italian Theatre. Oxford. Legenda, Italian Perspectives, 27, , pp.&#;–

  • Rame, Franca and Farrell, Joseph. "Non è tempo di nostalgia" – interview with Franca Rame, Della Porta Editori,
  • d'Arcangeli, Luciana.

    "The Rape by Franca Rame: Political Violence and Political Theatre" in Pierpaolo Antonello and Alan O'Leary (eds) Imagining Terrorism: The Rhetoric and Representation of Political Violence in Italy, –. Oxford, Legenda, , pp.&#;–

  • d'Arcangeli, Luciana. "Dario Fo, Franca Rame and the Censors" in Guido Bonsaver and Robert Gordon (eds) Culture, Censorship and the State in 20th Century Italy.

    Oxford, Legenda, , pp.&#;–

  • d'Arcangeli, Luciana. Madness in the Theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame. Forum Italicum, Stony Brook (NY), Spring, , pp.&#;–
  • d'Arcangeli, Luciana. 'Franca Rame: Pedestal, Megaphone or Female Jester?' in Ed Emery (ed) Research Papers on the Theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame.

    Cambridge, 28–30 April ".

    Lo stupro di Franca Rame - infoaut.org In office 28 April — 28 April Shortly thereafter, she met Dario Fo, whom she married in Read Edit View history. Nella perizia medica misureranno ventun centimetri.

    London and Sydney, Red Notes, , pp.&#;49–

  • Farrell, Joseph. Dario Fo and Franca Rame: harlequins of the revolution. Methuen,
  • Jenkins, Ronald Scott. Dario Fo & Franca Rame: artful laughter. Aperture,
  • Mitchell, Tony (), Dario Fo: People's Court Jester (Updated and Expanded), London: Methuen, ISBN&#;.
  • Valeri, Walter (ed).

    Monologo medea franca rame biography Rame's path intertwined with that of playwright Dario Fo, whom she married in Article Talk. From she was, also with her husband , an independent member of the Communist Refoundation Party. Partial filmography [ edit ].

    Franca Rame. A Woman on Stage. West Lafayette, Bordighera Press – Purdue University, Indiana

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