Can't Pay? Won't Pay!

Can't Pay? Won't Pay! (Italian: Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga!, also translated We Can't Pay? We Won't Pay! and Low Pay? Don't Pay!) is a play originally written in Italian by Dario Fo in 1974. Regarded as Fo's best-known play internationally after Morte accidentale di un anarchico, it had been performed in 35 countries by 1990. Considered a Marxist political farce, it is a comedy about consumer backlash against high prices.

Can't Pay? Won't Pay!
Written byDario Fo
Original languageItalian
SubjectConsumer backlash against high prices
GenrePolitical satire

It was the first show performed in the Palazzina Liberty on 3 October 1974. A North American English-language adaptation by R. G. Davis was published in 1984. The American premiere was performed by the San Francisco Mime Troupe.

The title of the original English translation in 1975 by Lino Pertile, Can't Pay? Won't Pay!, has passed into the English language.

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