Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman
by Dario Fo, Ron Jenkins

Name: Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman
Brand: Dario Fo
SKU: 9780573691362
Rating: 3.61 (2 reviews)

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Highlights

Female

Male

Awards & Recognition

Nobel Prize-Winning Playwright

Synopsis

This hilarious farce focuses on Elizabeth I of England.

It's a devastating satire on politics in the Age of Reagan.

Elizabeth is this aging, forgetful monarch, see, who is obsessed with appearances.

She is also suspicious of artists such as Shakespeare, who has written a play about some Danish prince which Elizabeth is convinced is really about her.

The play is performed for her in a hilarious parody of Hamlet, strained through the garbled pidgin English of Mama Zaza, a drag queen who has earlier told us that the play we are about to see has absolutely nothing to do with Reagan.

Press Reviews

"Fo nails pretension and political chicanery with ridicule, laughter, sarcasm, irony and the grotesque... This being Fo, the play is rich with raunch and scatology, may offend the unwary. But for Fo converts, it's a must, just as it's an ideal introduction to one of the world's funniest theatre satirists."
— Variety