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The Pope and the Witch (Italian title: Il Papa e la strega) is a satirical play by Dario Fo first performed in 1989. It depicts the Pope as a paranoid drug-addled idiot and the Vatican as corrupt.Fo an Italian actor-playwright awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature is known for aiming his sarcasm and slapstick comedy at authority and in The Pope and the Witch he takes dead aim at the highest levels of the Roman Catholic Church.

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