Deborah Howell sits down with actor/activist/musician Tim Robbins (perhaps known best for his tour de force performances in Bull Durham and Shawshank Redemption) for a conversation about The Actors Gang’s mulit-culti new play “Can't Pay? Don’t Pay!” now playing at The Old Ivy Substation in Culver City through April 30th. They also talk about film, music, philosophy and dreaming about playing with Bob Marley.
Hungry and fed up by rising prices and stagnant wages, humble housewife Antonia joins a revolt of women at the local supermarket. Determined to live with dignity and rejecting an austerity diet of dog food and birdseed, the women's protest escalates and looting ensues. As police search door to door, Antonia and her friend Margherita frantically try to hide their 'liberated' goods from their husbands and the police. 'Can't Pay? Don't Pay!' is a wildly funny satirical farce written by Nobel Laureate Dario Fo that questions why, in a world of bailed-out banks and overpriced prescription drugs, theft is only a crime when it is committed by those truly in need. Bob Turton, who won a Stage Raw Award for playing The Madman in last year's production of Dario Fo's 'Accidental Death of an Anarchist' directs 'Can't Pay? Don't Pay!', continuing our obsession with Dario Fo's magic!