Accidental Death of an Anarchist was performed on 9th-11th June in The Auditorium at The Storey, Lancaster.

Cast & Crew

Director: Luke Morgan
Assistant Director: Jamie Lonsdale
Producer: Sophie Goodman
Assistant Producer: Melissa Curd
Stage Managers: Laurence Bickerton & Hannah Cooper

The Maniac: Josh Utting
Bertozzo: Sarah Redford
Pissani: Abbie Jones
Superintendent: Will Dean
Feletti: Ffion King
The Constable: Holly Gudgin

The play opens with Inspector Bertozzo interrogating The Maniac on the third floor of the police station. The Maniac constantly outsmarts the dim-witted Bertozzo and, when Bertozzo leaves the room, intercepts a phone call from Inspector Pissani. The phone call lets the Maniac know that a judge is due at the police station to investigate the interrogation and death of the anarchist. The Maniac decides to impersonate the judge, and successfully does so. He gets the police to re-enact the events, in the actual fourth floor room, and also involves a woman Journalist who is trying to probe the events. The play ends with two alternative endings, one with Feletti (the Journalist) leaving the four policemen to be bombed and in the second, Feletti uncuffs the men who in turn handcuff her to the window frame leaving her to die. The Maniac then leaves the audience to decide which ending they prefer.

"I've worked you out: you really do have this acting mania, so you're acting mad but in fact you're saner than I am."

- Bertozzo

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