Archangels Don't Play Pinball

Archangels Don't Play Pinball (Italian title: Gli arcangeli non giocano al flipper)[1] is a 1959 two-act play by Dario Fo.

The play uses the metaphor of a pinball machine—a new innovation in Italy at the time and one which Fo and his wife Franca Rame were fond of— to convey mechanisation and conspicuous consumption.

They arrange for a fake marriage to take place between Lofty and a prostitute who pretends to be a beautiful Albanian princess.

After various further adventures, Lofty eventually awakes, only to find that it has all been a dream with the lovely lady there with him.

[2] It would later be the theme tune to the TV programme Canzonissima which the playwright, Dario Fo, makes a controversial appearance on.