1. Dario Fo's plays have been translated into 30 languages and performed across the world, including in Argentina, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, India, Iran, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Yugoslavia.
Dario Fo's younger brother Fulvio would become a theatre administrator, their younger sister Bianca Fo Garambois, a writer.
Dario Fo's father is thought to have helped smuggle Jewish scientists to the safety of Switzerland.
Dario Fo was mistaken and was instead dispatched to a camp in Monza at which Benito Mussolini himself arrived.
Dario Fo then deserted this as well, prompting a further unsuccessful search for the Resistance movement during which he slept rough in the countryside.
Dario Fo started a thesis on Roman architecture, but becoming disillusioned by the cheap impersonal work expected of architects after the war, he left his studies before his final examinations.
Dario Fo had a nervous breakdown; a doctor told him to spend time doing that which brought him joy.
Dario Fo began to paint and became involved in the piccoli teatri movement, in which he began to present improvised monologues.
Dario Fo collaborated with Fiorenzo Carpi; all of Fo's plays as far as 1967 would feature Carpi's music.
Dario Fo debuted at the Piccolo Teatro, and in 1959 began a series of six full-length plays that were performed each season at the Teatro Odeon.
Dario Fo later recounted this event in the prologue of Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas.
Dario Fo quickly recovered and was well again by his seventieth birthday on 24 March 1996.