Nobel prize winner Dario Fo’s Farce makes official corruption hilarious as

well as shocking!

Black Swan Theatre Company and Australia Post present

ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST

"Morte accidentale di un anarchico"

BY DARIO FO

TRANSLATED BY GILLIAN HANNA AND GAVIN RICHARDS

Directed by Tom Gutteridge

Set & Costume Design by Bryan Woltjen

Lighting Design by Mark Howett

Composer Ash Gibson Greig

Starring

Aaron Pedersen [MDA, Water Rats] as Maniac

Peter Docker as Bertozzo

David Lee Smyth as the Constable

Dennis Simmons as Pissani

Geoff Kelso as the Superintendent

Naomi Hanbury as Feletti

Playhouse Theatre – 3 Pier Street Perth

Previews: Sat 22 April 8pm & Mon 24 April 6.30pm

Opens: Wednesday 26 April 8pm

Season: Thurs 27 April – Saturday 6 May

Matinees: Sat 29 April 2pm & Wed 3 May 11am

Maniac, our accidental hero, suffers from ‘actor’s disease’ – the compulsion to impersonate. In the guise of the local chief justice, Maniac finds himself in the bowels of police headquarters conducting his own investigation into a suspected case of police misconduct.

Nobel Prize winner, Dario Fo, struck comedy gold with his masterpiece Accidental Death of an Anarchist. A satirical response to serious events – Italy’s politically turbulent 1960s – the play is a side-splittingly funny send-up of dodgy police and official ‘spin-doctoring’ that seems suspiciously fresh and relevant today.

Fo’s ‘Keystone Cops’ have performed in many languages and millions

of people around the world have laughed and cried at their antics. In this new adaptation, Black Swan Theatre Company will give Fo’s wonderful gag-fest a strongly Australian accent.

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