Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas
Contributors: Ron Jenkins (Translator)
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: April 27, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780802137777
Subjects: Fiction - Historical; Historical - General; Drama; Continental European; Plays; Florida; First contact with Europeans; Fiction; America; Indians of North America; Discoveries in geography; Discovery and exploration
First sentence: Faster! Faster! Let go the moorings!
Description: "Dario Fo is one of the world's most contemporary playwrights, forging subversive comedy, clowning, unusual linguistic experimentation, and brilliant playwrighting into a comedy of complete originality. A first-person monologue that bends and mutates language and historical fact, Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas is a retelling of Christopher Columbus's voyage to America.

Told by a last-minute conscript assigned to clean the shipboard pig stalls, who goes on to be adopted by a tribe of Indians and help them fight conquistadors, it posits a riotous alternate history in which the dynamics between native and white, male and female, history and comedy are never what they seem."--BOOK JACKET.