Review: ¿America?

COMEDY WITH INTELLECT, EMOTION AND BREATHLESS EXERCISE

Dario Fo has said that Erkki Saarela is the best Fo actor in his own
after. (In this case, Fo forgot about his wife, Franca Rame, but perhaps he
meant the best MALE actor).

Erkki Saarela has now directed the Helsinki City Theatre’s
Dario Fo’s hilarious American discovery adventure America?
Johan of Padua discovered America.
America is being discovered by Niko Saarela and Sami Uotila, both
unexpectedly good, both physically and orally,
They even put it into a song sometimes. Boys’ tango is made of iron!
America? is theatre that makes you feel good for a long time.

This discovery of America begins when Johan of Padua, played by
both Uotila and Saarela, because the Paduan is such a busy guy that
one person would be able to carry him, he would have to go to Columbus’ fourth
On an expedition to America while fleeing from the pyre of the Inquisition.
After various stages, he ends up in the land of the Indians, where in the beginning
about to be eaten, luckily he develops jaundice, which
Cannibals think it ruins the roast.
Since then, Johan of Padua becomes the practical god of the Indians, as he
is white, bearded and came from the west.
Usually the conquerors came to America from the east, but the Paduan went around
and ended up coming from the West to a warlike Indian community.
This is the beginning of a new history of the discovery of America. It so happens that the Paduan
and as brilliant handlers of captured horses, the Indians
escort the Spanish gold-hungry warriors walking in the shadow of the cross
to the loss.
Every new rescue expedition disappears somewhere, until the Spanish
the king decides to let it go, let the whole of America be. Conquest takes
too much strength and money.

This did not really happen, as we well know, but Dario Fo’s American
History is exhilaratingly nihilistic. Daniel Katz and Liisa Ryömä
The Finnish translation is delicious, they say they enjoy making the translation and
You can tell it, the text has been nicely translated into Finnish.
I had some reservations about Niko Saarela and especially Sami
Uotila, who is at least an actor in Salatut elämät, but with a cat’s whiskers:
The young men are really brilliant.

Dario Fo’s text can be completely misleading, but Saarela and Uotila are not
in any case. They are on the same wavelength as Fo.

Dario Fo is a theatre man that not everyone likes. His theatre is
carnivalesque, the legacy of commedia dell’arte, the satire is strict, but
always tinged with humour, and it may be that it is the humorous
attitude towards religion, for example, made the Catholic Church so furious
Folle.
Religion is not a laughing matter, although nowadays no one faithful to the church
boy go to the Dario Fo show with rotten tomatoes and a large
declaration. From the days of the 1950s, the Catholic Church has become
thicker skinned – the Protestant sects can’t be so much
sure.

Dario Fo was born on March 24, 1926 in northern Italy, in the Swiss
near the border on the shores of Lake Maggiore, among the most beautiful landscapes in Europe.
in the middle.
In his autobiography, he has told of a happy childhood, his father was
a left-wing railway official during Mussolini’s time, which is why the
were thrown far into the mountains to small stations. But the farther away
Mussolini, so much the better.

Dario Fo astonished and partly horrified literary circles by
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997. At that time, many fine hems
asked what had happened to the venerable Swedish Academy.
But Fo deserves his award, even though his contributions to the world are
as much in the performing arts as in literature. His style continues
even after him.