Friday 16th November 2012
Today we explored a piece of text from the 1970's called Can't Pay, Won't Pay by Dario Fo and had to identify parts in the play which related to the time it was wrote and what political issues were taking place at the time. We read it through to get a feel for the piece then we had to pick out certain words and sentences which would relate to the time of the piece and what the equivalent would be today. For example Green shield stamps nowadays would be loyalty cards such as boots and nectar where you would earn points that would then lead to money off things.
Also identify the political and economical of the time such as prices going up in supermarkets on necessities such as bread, milk, sugar which is still what goes on today. Strikes, back then people would call a strike the days its happening whereas now its so much more organised and communicated and made more aware in advance which i think makes it less effective and defeats the purpose to begin with as I believe peoples reasoning becomes manufactured and unrealistic. Also men and women's relationships and how woman are now treated more equal now, whereas before the men would give the women a cut of their wages to go and pay the bills, now women earn money for themselves and most people pay their bills by direct debit, its more technology based.
I really enjoyed the piece of text we were given and would like to explore it further as the play itself is funny and witty even though it is about real serious issues, it gives you more insight into what the world was like just 40 years ago and how a lot of things have changed, but at the same time old traditions have been brought back i.e the loyalty cards, they're just no longer on paper, or that prices are still going up.
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