SOURCE: "Mistero Buffo: Popular Culture, The Giullari and the Grotesque," in Dario Fo: People's Court Jester, Methuen, 1984, pp. 10-33.
Mitchell offers a detailed examination of Mistero Buffo. This work, he declares, "and its many offshoots, together with the countless improvised routines and sketches on topical events which Fo frequently makes up on the spot, reveal him as the 'theatrical animal' that he is, and show his unique capacity for turning a one-man show into a piece of epic and total theatre."
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