Dario Fo and the 'anti-gay pasta'
The Accidental Death of an Anarchist is no doubt one of my favorite plays and I often list Dario Fo as one of my favorite playwrights, but I haven't had occasion to think of Fo again until now. He is the author of an online petition that's going around at the moment. It's called 'Tell Barilla: where there is love, there is family'. Barilla is the world's largest pasta-maker. Its main proprietor, Guido Barilla, stated in a radio interview last Wednesday that he would never use same-sex families in the company's advertisements. He said that although he fully supported gay marriage, he found the idea (fact?) of same-sex couples raising children "complicated". He said his company stood for the fundamental importance of family in Italian society - the traditional (or "sacred") family. He threw in, for good measure, an implied challenge to gay customers to take their business elsewhere. Dario Fo writes in the petition that he starred in a