Com’è esser figlio di Franca Rame e Dario Fo (What It’s Like to Be the Son of Franca Rame and Dario Fo)

On Friday, March 27, 2026, at the Teatro Spazio Reno in Calderara di Reno, the show What It’s Like to Be the Son of Franca Rame and Dario Fo takes the stage.

“One day my father gave me the only piece of advice on writing he ever offered me: he told me that if, while writing, you get stuck and the story no longer moves forward, it most likely means you’ve taken a wrong turn. Then you have to go back to the last passage that convinces you, that excites you, and from there resume the story, seeking a different development… When I reached the point of writing much of this story, I got stuck.”

This is how the story by Jacopo Fo begins. In a book that then becomes a stage performance, he gathers a series of stories and memories in an attempt to answer the question he has been asked more than any other throughout his life: What is it like to be the son of Franca Rame and Dario Fo? And also… What is it like to grow up with two parents like that? What did they leave you? What did you learn?

All curiosities you try to give an answer to, questions that at the beginning of an interview you already know will be asked. Questions to which you always think you have a ready-made answer, but as you start responding with the usual refrain, new memories and emotions continually resurface in your mind.

In this story, Jacopo Fo tries to take us a little into his world of traveling players and wandering actors, of storytellers, set designers, and creators of fairy tales that always have firm foundations in the history of our country.