This article is really great! It has a video at the end that is of Fo himself explaining the story of Qu. Translation required!

HISTORY OF QU: Dario Fo with the survey done by the students of the School of Theatre Paolo Grassi in Milan

It 'clear that we in this band of actors, on the success of the whole operation, we bet it all and, in particular, we bet that does not end well with two replicas, and so here at Small ... but we will do the impossible, if give us a hand, because you do not go on taking in six months as planned, but now, immediately. In the words of an ancient wise: in the theater who loses the tram then goes on foot or worse knees. Above all we need to plant it to tell us concerned about young people without a future, now let's do this the future for young people, not after, when it has become the past!....

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