Season:16-25 July

by Dario Fo and Franca Rame, adapted by Tom Basden

Tom Basden’s dazzlingly funny script is a recent adaptation of a classic 1970’s Italian farce.

Dario Fo and Franca Rame wrote the original in response to the death of Guiseppe Pinelli, a Milanese railway worker, who was falsely accused of a series of railway-station bombings and mysteriously fell out of a fourth-floor window at police HQ.

When Fo was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy praised him as a writer "who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden".

Basden’s adaptation, which places the action in a contemporary London police station, continues in the Fo tradition of providing the audience with uproarious entertainment whilst also drawing our attention to the absurdities of people in authority who have limited training and understanding of what their job entails.

Accidental Death of an Anarchist guarantees you a hilarious night out – with a soupçon of recognition of the way the world of authority can so often be.

Directors: Joy Hellyer and Paul Kay

Cast: Chris O'Grady, Corrina Gordon, Gino Moretto, James Kiesel, Kevin Hastings, Sadie McLoughlin

Venue: Cochran Hall, 106 Cashmere Ave

Performances

• 7:30 pm on Thursday, 16 July

• 7:30 pm on Friday, 17 July

• 7:30 pm on Saturday 18 July

• 3:00 pm on Sunday 19 July

• 7:30 pm on Thursday, 23 July

• 7:30 pm on Friday, 24 July

• 7:30 pm on Saturday 25 July

Ticket prices

• Waged: $25

• Unwaged: $20