The Tale of a Tiger (Italian: La storia della tigre)[1] is a dramatic monologue by Dario Fo.
Fo collected material for it during a June 1975 visit to China with his wife Franca Rame and other members of their theatre company, and he toured around Italy with it in 1978.
[1][2] During Mao's Long March across China, a revolutionary soldier is wounded.
What follows is a comic narrative about their domestic life together, as the tiger nurses him back to health.
[3] Ed Emery has carried out an authorised English translation.