No Pay? No Way!
by Dario Fo and Franca Rame in a new adaptation by Marieke Hardy Sydney Theatre Company Royal Opera House, Sydney Dario Fo and Franca Rame's 1970s Italian farce about capitalism and the cost of living crisis may be half a century old but gains a delicious contemporary relevance in this new adaptation by Australian writer Marieke Hardy and directed by Sarah Giles, currently in its second staging by the Sydney Theatre Company. Working-class housewife Antonia (McElhinney) has just returned from the supermarket where the doubling of prices overnight has resulted in a riot by irate local women who have promptly stormed off with produce they simply refuse to pay for. With the police hot on their pursuit, Antonia ropes in timid neighbour Margherita (Emma Harvie) to hide the ill-gotten gains from her husband Giovanni (Glenn Hazeldine), a staunch trade unionist and stickler for rules. What follows is a madcap romp involving pregnancies, saints, coffins and some very confused people. In cl
