Can't Pay? Won't Pay!

Can't Pay? Won't Pay! (Non si paga! Non si paga!)

    Alternative Title: We Can't Pay? We Won't Pay!; We Won't Pay? We Won't Pay!

    Author: Dario Fo

    First Performance: 1974, Milan

    Published: 1974

    First English Translation: 1978

    Genre: Pol. com. in 2 acts; Italian prose

    Setting: Working-class suburb of Milan, 1970s

    Cast: 6m, 2f

Antonia and Margherita, two working-class housewives, stagger in with goods that they have stolen from the supermarket as part of a protest by local women against rising prices. Antonia is terrified that her husband Giovanni, a Communist factory-worker, will force her to return her booty. He notices Margherita's bulging coat and is told that she is pregnant. He is dismayed that some workers refused to pay for the overpriced food in the...

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