Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Student Editions) - Softcover

Fo, Dario

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413772675 ISBN 13: 9780413772671

Publisher: Methuen Drama, 2009

Synopsis

'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.

About this title

About the Author:

CHRIS MEGSON is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK. His recent publications include The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays (2010); his book on The Seventies, for 'Methuen's Decades of Modern British Playwrighting' series, is forthcoming in 2012. He has published widely on British theatre culture since 1968 and documentary/Tribunal theatre.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian

About this edition

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0413772675
• ISBN 13: 9780413772671
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: Farrell Joseph