Background
He is the son of playwrights Franca Rame and Dario Folio
He is the son of playwrights Franca Rame and Dario Folio
lieutenant formed the basis of the 1994 monologue Sesso? Grazie, tanto per gradire! (Sex? The government of Silvio Berlusconi, recently risen to power, banned Italians under the age of 18 from seeing it over fears, it said, that the play could "cause offence to the common decency which requires respect for spheres of decency, and provoke distress among adolescent spectators, with possible effects on their behaviour in relation to sex", thus defeating the original purpose of the performance. Much free publicity ensued, with the censorship issue being debated in the national parliament, teachers calling for it to be performed, and audiences and both Italian and foreign intellectuals signing a petition calling for the ban to be overturned. Jacopo Fo has in more recent times been prominent in the political campaign of Beppe Grillo.