We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!

Payment is not! is a farce of the Italian writer and Nobel laureate Dario Fo, the first time in 1974 in Milan under the original title Non si paga! Non si paga! was published. The divided into two acts Comedy plays in Milan in the 1970s. The German -language premiere was in 1976 in Frankfurt am Main, the German -language edition of the comedy was released in 1977 in the Berlin Red Book Publishers, based on a translation by Peter O. Chotjewitz

Figures

Antonia

Giovanni

Margherita

Luigi

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Action

The action begins with Antonia and Margherita, bring oodles food from a nearby supermarket in Antonia's apartment. Fearing Giovanni hide the unpaid merchandise. In a conversation between the two, we learn that it has come to revolt and that the women of the entire residential area have been robbed with the help of some workers to the supermarket. After Margherita is gone, Giovanni arrives and also tells of a revolt in the canteen of his farm. Since he could not eat so he asks Antonia to cook him something. However, since this could only take animal food from the store, Giovanni refuses indignantly. Antonia then goes.

Shortly thereafter, the sergeant enters, who must carry out house searches in the residential area because of what happened in the supermarket. It comes here to a discussion between John and him about justice and the political system. The sergeant reveals Giovanni after a short conversation that he is suffering, having to adapt despite revolting opinion. In the next scene - the sergeant came off - Antonia returns again, the two talk about the strange behavior of the constable. Shortly afterwards, Margherita re-enters the apartment, which has the stolen things tied around the waist, so that it looks as if she were pregnant.

As also kicks in even the carabinieri, begins a grotesque events. To keep the Carabinieri of the search, Antonia Margherita stops to simulate a premature birth. Antonia and the carabinieri go from then to bring Margherita to the hospital. Giovanni is a short time alone until Luigi kicks in. This also tells of an uprising of the workers in the train, who thus set against the fare increase to fight back. As Giovanni told him about the pregnancy, Luigi is irritated. They both want then go to the hospital.

With the beginning of the second act occurred Antonia and Margherita, which were run by the paramedics, into the apartment. Her two men - looking for women - will witness a truck accident. The truck was loaded with food. First, both want to help. But then a discussion over stealing developed. Giovanni insists on honesty and the demarcation to the lumpenproletariat. But when Luigi told him that the factory where both work, is to be closed, Giovanni's opinion changes. Both go with bags packed from the accident. The Carabinieri who has seen it, it tracks. But they go into Luigi's apartment. The Carabinieri, but this goes to Giovanni's apartment, finds there again before the two women. He now sees through the story of the pregnancy. But due to a fictitious tale of Antonia believes the Carabinieri, he was blind and falls short to it. The women believe they have killed him. The two men met, however, a funeral director in the stair hall, which has a coffin for a deceased out of the house with him. However, since there is none to be found, he leaves the two men the coffin that there stow the bags to put them in Giovanni's apartment. Once there, they try to put the coffin in a closet. You notice not that there is already the seemingly dead carabineers. Then the father Giovanni comes with an eviction notice for Giovanni's apartment and food. As Giovanni now wants to admit that he has stolen and goes to the cupboard where the coffin is hidden, suddenly the Carabinieri wakes up, the leaves completely confused the apartment. Finally, a choir sounds from all persons who repeats the words which were spoken before by Giovanni: "A world in which you realize that there is still a heaven are ... and plants that bloom ... that there is even a spring and ... girls laughing and singing. And if you have to die one day, does not die an old, crippled mule, no, a person dies, a man who has lived free and happy, with other free people. "