The Washington Post, October 10th, 1997
Dario Fo's 1969 play "Comic Mystery" ("Mistero Buffo"), translated by Ed Emery, from "Dario Fo, Plays: One," published by Methuen Drama (London, 1993), retells several biblical tales, including the marriage at Cana. Fo's narrator is a drunk recalling one of the best binges of his life: a wedding at which a guest named Jesus, "the one they've nicknamed the `son of God,' " turns water into wine: I had no sooner swallowed it when I got the taste: a bit bitter at the back, a bit sharp, almost spicy in the middle; it sent out a deep red sparkle, a glow . . . a golden vintage! . . . And everyone beg...
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