Was Dario Fo's satire too simplistic or one-sided?
Some say my laughter is too sharp, my targets too obvious. They prefer their theatre neat, palatable. But when you see the injustices, the blatant lies, the crushing weight of the powerful on the shoulders of the weak, how can you not laugh with righteous fury? My aim is not to present a balanced debate of ideologies in a drawing-room. It is to rip away the pretense, to expose the rot beneath the gilded surface. The people understand this. They recognize the truth in a well-aimed joke, a song sung with defiance. If that makes my satire 'one-sided,' then I am proud to stand on the side of truth and the oppressed!