부산대학교 도서관

We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! is a political farce by Dario Fo in which the story of two working class families, who fight inflation using the weapon of civil disobedience, is recounted while raising different socio-political questions . The topicality of the burning issues raised in the play assures a profound influence on contemporary audience. Fo's method of mining laughter from actual events provokes his audience into seeing their world from fresh perspectives. His interrogation of exploitative capitalism, suppressive patriarchy, spiraling rate of unemployment, inconvenient intervention of religion in the individuals' private life, hijacking of revolutionary ideology by the parliamentary communist groups turn this play into a political manifesto just like the Accidental Death of an Anarchist. Fo's colourful use of farce, satire and buffoonery makes this play an example of agitation theatre with a difference. In this play, he incorporates canivalesque theory of disorder and civil disobedience to bolster working class militancy. The carnivalesque imagery in the play may be a temporary reversal of quotidian behaviour but it carries in it the seeds for social revolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]