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There are two absolutely towering figures in Italian theatre: actor Giorgio Albertazzi and comedian, mime and playwright Dario Fo (who, eleven years ago, was the first humorous writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature). They are both notorious political extremists of opposite stripes: Fo an anarchist with Catholic tendencies and a long-time ally of all extreme left factions; Albertazzi a hard-right-winger who had, as a teen-ager, fought on the Nazi side in the civil war of 1943-45. Now it turns out that they are close friends and they have made a huge (eight-part) TV series about the art of theatre. Of course, to have two such giants discussing their art must be wonderful, and I will try to see as much as I can of it now I am going to Italy for Christmas. But how does one interpret this strange friendship: that top professionals understand each other in spite of all differences; or that extremists always have something in common?