The 'Deccan Herald Theatre Festival 2013' will begin on February 1, 7.30 pm at Chowdiah Hall with the play 'Accidental Death of an Anarchist'.
It is presented by Clear Waters Media in association with Bangalore Little Theatre. Written by Dario Fo and directed by Kishore Acharya (by arrangement with Samuel French and Jagriti), it is a comic farce based on a real-life incident that took place in Italy in 1969.
The setting for the play is a police station where the main character, the Maniac, proceeds to investigate an incident in which an anarchist had fallen from the fourth floor window of the police headquarters, where he was being interrogated.
In doing so, he reveals the idiocy of the lies spun by officialdom.The power of the play derives from the tension, deliberately set up by the playwright, between the comedy arising from the confusion of identities and the tragic circumstances surrounding the death of an innocent man.
It is Dario Fo's firm belief that laughter opens people's minds and makes them receptive to ideas that they might otherwise reject. In keeping with this, the play is full of funny situations and characters guaranteed to cause a riot of laughter. Dario Fo was awarded the 'Nobel Prize for Literature' in 1997.
The cast includes Shashank Purushotham, Anirudh Acharya, Naveen Kumar J, Nikhil Bharadwaj, Kishore Acharya and Indumathi Manohar. The production team comprises Vikram Balakrishna and Pooja Rao. Costume design is by Sankeerthi Aipanjiguly and set design is by Sridhar Murthy.
It is presented by Clear Waters Media in association with Bangalore Little Theatre. Written by Dario Fo and directed by Kishore Acharya (by arrangement with Samuel French and Jagriti), it is a comic farce based on a real-life incident that took place in Italy in 1969.
The setting for the play is a police station where the main character, the Maniac, proceeds to investigate an incident in which an anarchist had fallen from the fourth floor window of the police headquarters, where he was being interrogated.
In doing so, he reveals the idiocy of the lies spun by officialdom.The power of the play derives from the tension, deliberately set up by the playwright, between the comedy arising from the confusion of identities and the tragic circumstances surrounding the death of an innocent man.
It is Dario Fo's firm belief that laughter opens people's minds and makes them receptive to ideas that they might otherwise reject. In keeping with this, the play is full of funny situations and characters guaranteed to cause a riot of laughter. Dario Fo was awarded the 'Nobel Prize for Literature' in 1997.
The cast includes Shashank Purushotham, Anirudh Acharya, Naveen Kumar J, Nikhil Bharadwaj, Kishore Acharya and Indumathi Manohar. The production team comprises Vikram Balakrishna and Pooja Rao. Costume design is by Sankeerthi Aipanjiguly and set design is by Sridhar Murthy.