Can’t Pay? Don’t Pay!

Based on the book 'Can't Pay? Don't Pay' by Dario Fo and Franca Rame

Directed by Bob Turton

Translated by Cam Deaver

Can’t Pay? Don’t Pay! by Dario Fo and Franca Rame opens March 19th, with previews beginning March 12th at The Actors’ Gang Theater at the Ivy Substation in Culver City. 

Hungry and fed up by rising prices and stagnant wages, humble housewife Antonia joins a revolt of women at the local supermarket. Determined to live with dignity and rejecting an austerity diet of dog food and birdseed, the women's protest escalates and looting ensues. As police search door to door, Antonia and her friend Margherita frantically try to hide their 'liberated' goods from their husbands and the police. 'Can't Pay? Don't Pay!' is a wildly funny satirical farce written by Nobel Laureate Dario Fo that questions why, in a world of bailed-out banks and overpriced prescription drugs, theft is only a crime when it is committed by those truly in need. Bob Turton, who won a Stage Raw Award for playing The Madman in last year's production of Dario Fo's 'Accidental Death of an Anarchist' directs 'Can't Pay? Don't Pay!', continuing our obsession with Dario Fo's magic!

March 19th (Opening Night) through June 11th (Closing Night)

Thursdays at 8 pm (Pay-What-You-Can)

Fridays at 8 pm