Franca Rame
Introduction
Franca Rame was born in Parabiago, not-west Milan, on 18 July 1929. The daughter of wandering minstrels, she was born into a family with strong theatrical traditions, Famiglia Rame. She made her theatrical debut as a child and in 1950 left home to begin a career in the theatre. In 1958, alongside her husband Dario Fo, she founded the Compagnia Teatrale Dario Fo Franca Rame. She wrote comedies on the female condition such as The Rape (1975), Open Couple (1983), Let's Talk About Women (1991), Sex? Don't Mind If I Do (1996) and Mother Peace: Let Mothers Decide About War (2005), She also collaborated on all Dario Fo's works.
In the 1970s she founded Red Aid and in 1988 the Nobel Committee for the Disabled. Her awards include the Obie Prize {New York, 1987), Leon Felipe for Human Rights (Spain, 1998), Vittorini Prize (Siracusa, 1998), and a Lifetime Achievement Award (Harvard University and Columbia University, 2001). From 2006-8 she was a Senator of the Republic. She died in Milan on 29 May 2013.
SLT Productions
Rame and Fo collaborated on all their works, but initially they were only attributed publicly to Fo. More recently published editions and performances have credited both Fo and Rame as authors. The individual archive show pages give the credits as they were at the time of the SLT production:
- Accidental Death Of An Anarchist (1984) (Bell Theatre)
- Trumpets And Raspberries (1990) (Bell Theatre)
- Elizabeth - Almost by Chance a Woman (2006) (Bell Theatre)
- Accidental Death of an Anarchist (2009) (Prompt Corner)
- Accidental Death Of An Anarchist (2025) (Old Fire Station)
