How did Dario Fo use commedia dell'arte in his work?
Commedia dell'arte, my friends, is the soul of what I do! It's not just masks and slapstick; it's the spirit of improvisation, the quick wit of the zanni, the unmasking of folly. It's about taking the common archetypes – the arrogant doctor, the conniving servant, the desperate lover – and using them to expose the absurdities and hypocrisies of our present day. I didn't just revive it; I injected it with the urgent, raw energy of contemporary protest. We use the old forms to tell new stories, songs that spring from the very heart of the people's experience. It's about finding the universal in the specific, the revolutionary in the everyday!