Dario Fo’s MISTEROBUFFO
directed by Lyto Triantafyllidou
with Panos Vlahos
West Coast Premiere
Production Dates: SUN 6/4, 7pm SAT 6/10, 6pm SUN 6/11, 9pm THU 6/22, 10:30pm
Opening Night: SUN 6/4, 7pm
A modern clown entertains his audience by performing a provocative Comical Mystery. Like another Jesus Christ, he redefines the notion of authority by giving a human dimension to the concept of miracles.
Acclaimed Greek actor Panos Vlahos will perform this new adaptation of Dario Fo’s Mistero Buffo for the first time in Los Angeles. The performances will be held at Complex Theatres’ Flight Theatre, as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
Mistero Buffo, written in 1969 by Nobel Prize winning playwright Dario Fo is a political exploration of popular Medieval Mysteries, consisting of several scenes re-imagining Biblical Stories and establishing new protagonists against religious rule. Dario Fo distorts popular religious stories, in order to further denounce the e