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This collection of eight small plays (72pgs) written by Italian marxist Dario Fo and his wife Franca Rame is some of the best radical feminist literature that I personally have ever read. These short plays are all independent of each other, but they were meant to be performed consecutively as part of one performance, with a general introduction at the beginning. They all deal with the problems facing women and the sexism which faces them, and yet all of the plays are comedies, like with all of Fo's plays, but this does not take away from the very serious nature of the subjects being portrayed and discussed. I will give a few brief notes about each play below:

As with some of Dario Fo's plays this one, The Open Couple, was written with his wife, fellow leftist Franca Rame. In the original productions of this play Fo played the "Man" and Rame played the "Woman." This play is much shorter than the previous plays I have posted by Dario Fo, it was written in 1983 and varies from the previous plays in that it does not focus as much on working class struggle, rather it focuses it's attention on the issues of sexism and marriage. This only makes sense given the enormous downturn in working class struggle in 80's Italy.