Mistero Buffo heads to Paphos

After its last performance in Nicosia tonight, the play Mistero Buffo will travel to Paphos for two performances next Wednesday and Thursday.

The play, by Nobel Prize winning playwright Dario Fo, is a series of brief monologues with Biblical themes drawn from the Biblical apocrypha and popular tales of the life of Christ. The performance texts are in a mixture of Italian, dialect and grammelot – a constructed dialect that draws on and mixes up regional languages.

Mistero Buffo was written in 1969 and is recognised as one of the most controversial and popular spectacles in post-war European theatre and its broadcast in Italy prompted the Vatican to denounce it as “the most blasphemous show in the history of television.”

The performance in Nicosia tonight will be accompanied by supertitles in English and Turkish.

Mistero Buffo
Performance of the comedy by Dario Fo. July 4-5. Paphos Ancient Odeon. 9pm. €6/12. In Greek. Tel: 77-772717

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