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Considered a classic of 20thcentury theater, it has been performed across the world in more than forty countries, and based off the 1969 piazza fontana bombing and its related investigations and influences. Accident, mind you, not suicide as you gentlemen called it. Investigative journalism yielded contention about his death which occurred in police custody and its this ambivalence that lies at the heart of fos play. Accidental death of an anarchist first appeared in 1970, inspired by the mysterious demise of a certain giuseppe pinelli in december 1969. Editions of accidental death of an anarchist by dario fo. Pdf accidental death of an anarchist download full pdf. Dario fo accidental death of an anarchist full youtube. Accidental death of an anarchist by dario fo, 97804156105, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. I know of no other satirical works of the same length of run that can begin to compare with accidental death of an anarchist. Speaking in an interview in 1985, fo discusses the origins of anarchist.
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