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Dario Fo is Italy's leading contemporary playwright, renowned throughout the world for his dazzling and radical comic satires. Dario Fo was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997. Accidental Death of an Anarchist is a comic farce. The setting for the play is a police station. In it, the main character, the Maniac, proceeds to investigate an incident where an anarchist fell from the Fourth Floor window of the Police Headquarters where he was being interrogated (based on a real incident), and in doing so reveals the idiocy of the lies spun by officialdom. The power of the play derives from the tension that the playwright deliberately sets up between the comedy arising from confusions of identity and the tragic circumstances surrounding the death of an innocent man. It is Dario Fo's firm belief that laughter opens people's minds and makes them receptive to ideas that they might otherwise reject. In keeping with this, the play is replete with funny situations and characters guaranteed to cause a laugh riot.
CAST: Hans Kaushik, Yog Japee, Asim Sharma, Paul Mathew, Sriya Chari and Jagan. Direction: Rajiv Krishnan a Magic Lantern Production With the support of The Alliance Francaise de Chennai. For more details, contact: Rajiv, 824 0558 / 432 2894 or email saxmanhans@yahoo.co.uk Sponsors: Weekenders - wear the attitude, TVS-Suzuki |
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