Stage Design
We Won't Pay, We Won't Pay by Dario Fo
In this side-splitting "comedy of hunger," angry housewives take matters into their own hands when the price of groceries exceeds the size of their purses. Not just hungry for food, these characters are hungry for dignity, justice, and love. The satire, initially challenging the laws of the free market eventually challenges the laws of nature as well: men get pregnant and women give birth to cabbages. The world is thrown into pandemonium. Dario Fo claimed that his plays were nothing more than “documentary reflections of a world in which reality has become its own satire.” The simple box set in the style of the 1950’s TV show “The Honeymooners,” (with a flying clothesline half-curtain) established a tone of drab proletarian utility.