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Nobel Prize-winner Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970), relating to a bomb attack on a bank in Italy in the late 1960s, is a satirical rip-off on official corruption, specifically on the brutal methods of police interrogation that, often, result in death in custody. The problem, of course, is global, and Dario Fo locates it in the universality of a police station setting - a frightening enough place for most occasions. The process of an inquiry into the accidental death of a rebel/protester. Fo, however, dislocates the seriousness of the setting and the process of inquiry by a bizarre cross-examination, with the unintended and, occasionally, unselfconscious participation of the suspect policeman themselves in his unique ways, often hilarious, but always anchored to the reality and casual nature of police brutality.

Ranga Shankara
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