Zanni: Born From Hunger — Dario Fo’s Most Famous Routine

By Tony Kishawi | 7 December 2025

In this video, Nobel Prize–winning actor and playwright Dario Fo performs one of his most famous routines — a brilliant Commedia dell’Arte monologue that explores the origins of Zanni, the character who later evolved into Arlecchino. This piece comes from Fo’s celebrated body of work in which he revives the tradition of the medieval storytellers…

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