Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Methuen Drama) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Accidental Death of an Anarchist Highly contentious and subversive at the time of its first production in Milan in 1970, this has since become one of Fo's best known and translated text. Based on a true story it throws in to relief the judicial and police corruption of 1970s Italy. Simon Nyes's superb translation brings out the parallels with our situation today.
Full description- Publisher: METHUEN DRAMA
- Published: 01 April 2004
- Format: Paperback 176 pages
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- Categories: Plays, Playscripts | Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights
- ISBN 13: 9780413772671 ISBN 10: 0413772675
- Sales rank: 74,826
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'The quality that makes Fo uniquely powerful ...[is] the ability to wring wild laughter out of insidious corruption' Guardian 'Simon Nye's witty translation updates and relocates the play ...suitably close to contemporary England. Fo is that rare thing, a far-left playwright with a popular, comic touch. And his stinging attack upon the black arts of government cover-up, manipulation and mendacity could not be more timely' Evening Standard In its first two years of production, Dario Fo's controversial farce, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, was seen by over half a million people. It has since been performed all over the world and is widely recognised as a classic of modern drama. A sharp and hilarious satire on political corruption, it concerns the case of an anarchist railway worker who, in 1969, 'fell' to his death from a police headquarters window. This version of the play was premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in February 2003. Commentary and notes by Joseph Farrell.
