Italy has been swinging into feature-length animation, with several productions each year. "Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas" is typical in its detailed artwork, lively story, catchy ...

Seeing a production of Dario Fo’s Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas is not a typical night at the theater. Always inventive, at times hysterical, the two-hour one-man show tells the story ...

Based on a play by Dario Fo, this parable about the evolution of Western civilisation is set in 1550. Our hero is Johan, a curious young man who spends his life travelling between Venice and Seville.

Italy's Nobel Prize-winning leftist playwright and comedian Dario Fo enjoys taking potshots at the status quo, and in this somewhat Swiftian monologue he takes great glee in rewriting history and ...

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