C'è un re pazzo in Danimarca

A love story, a story of power and intrigue that is fascinating and engaging that the Nobel prize winner recreates in the form of a novel after finding a series of secret diaries and inedited documents.
Just like his previous book La figlia del Papa (The Pope’s daughter), Dario Fo merges invention and historic research to make a long forgotten story relevant and appealing because of its beauty and charm.

A story of love and insanity. A revolutionary dream that became reality. This new historical novel by Dario Fo takes place in Denmark in the 18th century. The main characters are the mad young king Christian VII and his young wife Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, her lover, doctor Johann Friedrich Struensee and the king’s son Frederick.
At times the story changes direction due to unexpected events such as madness. In this case, it is the insanity of a king combined with the utopian vision of an illuminist revolutionary doctor who loves Voltaire and Rousseau, and the complicity of the young princess. Locked in a desperate love triangle, the three of them launch a series of revolutionary reforms, which were unimaginable at the time such as the abolition of torture, freedom of the press, the abolition of class privileges, the promotion of culture and education. A coup orchestrated by the queen mother and by the Court will lead the doctor to be hanged and the princess to be exiled and separated from her children. But although the dream of a revolution is crushed, it still remains alive: the young Frederick will continue to support the liberal principles when he takes over, triggering a strong reaction from the conservatories and in effect anticipating the ideals of the French Revolution.
Only someone who has been writing political theatre for a lifetime could have written such a story.