One of his first films was O Funeral do Patrão (1975), based on a play by the Italian playwright Dario Fo.
Its first programming included news reports by journalist Udo Gumpel on mafia and other Italian scandals, a weekly analysis of the main news topic of the week, and interviews with Dario Fo, Licio Gelli, Giancarlo Caselli and other personalities.
Dario Fo's play Accidental Death of an Anarchist, although in the original script his name was not mentioned explicitly.
1984 - The 1982 Company give the first performance in English of Dario Fo's Mistero Buffo.
We Won't Pay!, by Dario Fo (March 12 - May 15); Oliver!, by Lionel Bart, (May 28 - August 29); The Road to Mecca, by Athol Fugard (September 10 - October 23); and The Secret Garden, book by Jim Crabtree, music and lyrics by Sharon Burgett, additional lyrics by Sue Beckwith-Smith and Diana Matterson, from the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
In April 1985, Bruce DuBose joined the cast of Dario Fo’s Can’t Pay/Won’t Pay, beginning a longtime relationship that would eventually take Mr. DuBose to the position of Executive Producer of Undermain Theatre.
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The 1962 edition, hosted by Dario Fo and Franca Rame, generated large political controversities due to use of censorship to cut some satirical sketches of Fo; the couple Fo-Rame was eventually fired, and the scandal lead to a long interruption of five years.
In early 1960s she began personally to know some Italian intellectuals and researchers of popular tradition, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Dario Fo, Italo Calvino and others.
In 1989 with Umberto Angelucci, Benni directed the film Musica per vecchi animali, adapted from his book Comici spaventati guerrieri with the actors Dario Fo, Paolo Rossi, and Viola Simoncioni, and just two years before that he was also the screenwriter of another film, Topo Galileo by Francesco Laudadio, starring his friend Beppe Grillo and with music by Fabrizio De André and Mauro Pagani.