Resumo de Accidental Death Of An Anarchist

Can anarchists fly? Perhaps the suicide of an anarchist is
just his ability to fly, but decision at the last minute
not to. Accidental Death of an Anarchist looks at the
possibilities around such a statement among the persecution
of subversive political figures in Italy. First produced in
1970, this satirical comedy by Dario Fo of the Italian
politically corrupt system is a masterpiece of the Italian
stage. The play is based on the actual event of the
suspicious death in 1969 of an Italian anarchist, Giuseppe
Pinelli who died while in police custody. An unknown man
has been arrested for pretending to be a psychiatrist by
Inspector Bertozzo of the Milano police. Bertozzo and the
other members of the police force at the station find the
strange man, who they refer to as ?The Maniac? a strange
and irritating man, but at the moment they have bigger
problems as there is an investigation underway of an
anarchist who suspiciously died after falling out of a
fourth floor window of Milan?s police headquarters. The
anarchist, arrested for being suspected of planting a bomb
early that day. Left alone, the Maniac receives a phone
call from Inspector Pissani, informing him that an
inspector is coming to the station to investigate the
suspicious death of the anarchist and how the police may
have caused his death. The maniac decides to impersonate
the inspector; he impersonates the magistrate and begins to
interrogate Pissani and his compatriots. The maniac
tortures the police by showing them how suspicious the
anarchist?s death is and how the suicide theory can not be
possible. While the police get more and more agitated over
the supposed ?inspector?s? evidence against them, a
beautiful journalist, Maria Feletti, arrives to hear their
side of the story. Bertozzo re-enters with a replica bomb
and is shocked to see his maniac pretending to be a police
inspector before the press. Pissani and crew try to
suppress the agitated Bertozzo as the action becomes more
and more strange. The maniac has secretly recorded the
police?s confessions to the actual murder of the anarchist
and gives Feletti the tape recorder. During an act of
typical panache, the maniac escapes after handcuffing the
police and leaving the keys with the journalist. The play
remains a powerful piece of political protest.

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