By James Foritano Back in that famously conformist era of the 1950s, the infamously nonconformist actor and teen heart-throb James Dean was asked, “What are you rebelling against?” Forever defining what it meant to be cool, the rebel without a cause responded: “What have you got?” solidifying himself and“The Wild Ones” as timeless benchmarks of youth rebellion. In “Mistero Buffo,” current being performed at Boston’s Modern Theater, could Dario Fo be channeling Dean — or vice-versa? Perhaps yes, perhaps no. Iconoclasts bloom on the family tree where they will, how they will. Dean would die in his sports car in a horrific intersection collision on a desert California highway. Fo, having deserted his post in Mussolini’s fascist forces more than once, sought life in the desert wastes of Italy’s war-torn 1940s and ‘50s. In the midst of a suite of skits which are only a few of … [Read more...] about Mistero Buffo at The Modern Theater