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[[Image:Anarchist poster 2.jpg|thumb|300px|Poster by [[Mark Davies]]]]

by [[Dario Fo]], Translated by [[Simon Nye]]

Directed by [[Mark Davies]]

Performances:  Tue 17th - Sat 21st March [[2009]], [[Prompt Corner]]

== Introduction ==
This is perhaps Italian playwright Dario Fo’s best known play, first performed in 1970.  Written in response to the death of a police suspect who supposedly fell out of a police station window, it is a farce satirising corruption within the police and government.  Right wing politics was, and still is, a strong force in Italy, and the play also aims to expose the underhand methods the police used to infiltrate left wing groups by posing as other people.  Whilst not a policeman himself , the main character's histrionic nature is a reflection on what the police did through impersonation and trickery.  Having infiltrated a police headquarters, he poses as a judge and tricks the policemen into admitting that they are involved in a cover-up.    Simon Nye (of Men Behaving Badly fame) provides this translation which moves along at break-neck speed, an onslaught of farce which gets ever more far-fetched as the story unfolds.

This version of ''Accidental Death of an Anarchist'' premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London in February 2003.

== Cast ==

*Maniac - [[Kevin Monk]]
*Bertozzo - [[Jack King]]
*Inspector (Special Branch) - [[Simon Holland]]
*Superintendent - [[Matthew Lyne]]
*Journalist - [[Clíodhna McAllister]]
*Constable - [[Stuart Sutton]]

== Crew ==

*Stage managed by [[Lauri Morgan]] and [[Deirdre Parkes]]
*Set designed by [[Dave Hollander]]
*Costumes arranged by [[Kristy Davis]]
*Sound and Lighting designed by [[Mark Davies]] and [[Mike Elliott]]
*Properties from [[Alan Buckman]], cast and crew.
*Programme - [[Dave Hollander]]
*Photographs by [[Tom Hancock]]
*Thanks to Matt, the cast and crew of Park and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Joe Dolce, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2621491/Silvio-Berlusconi-to-release-love-song-album.html Silvio Berlusconi] by Perma-tan TM, Andy from Bambino's Junk Shop in Crystal Palace for providing body parts, [[James Hough]] for the German dynamite, UCLH for the tatty stationery, the volunteers manning the bar and Front of House.

== Reviews ==

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== Gallery ==

== Reminiscences and Anecdotes ==

This production is 25 years since the previous one, and Mr Lyne has since been promoted.

== See Also ==

Dario Fo plays previously performed at SLT:

*[[Accidental Death Of An Anarchist (1984)|Accidental Death Of An Anarchist]] ([[1984]]) ([[Bell Theatre]])
*[[Trumpets And Raspberries (1990)|Trumpets And Raspberries]] ([[1990]]) ([[Bell Theatre]])
*[[Elizabeth - Almost by Chance a Woman (2006)|Elizabeth - Almost by Chance a Woman]] ([[2006]]) ([[Bell Theatre]])

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