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Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Morte accidentale di un anarchico)

Author: Dario Fo

First Performance: 1970, Milan

Published: 1970; rev. 1974

First English Translation: 1980

Genre: Satire in 2 acts; Italian prose

Setting: Police headquarters, Milan, Jan. 1970

Cast: 5m, 1f

Inspector Bertozzo of the Milan police is interviewing the Maniac (or Fool), arrested for fraudulently claiming to be a psychiatrist. Left alone, the Maniac receives a phone call from Inspector Pissani who has just heard that an examining magistrate is coming to investigate the suspicious death of an anarchist, who ‘fell’ from a fourth-floor window in the building after being arrested for allegedly planting a bomb. The Maniac disguises himself as the magistrate and begins interrogating Pissani and his...

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