by Dario Fo · Pepitas de calabaza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417386818
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In May 1920, an Italian immigrant named Salsedo fell from a window of the FBI building in New York. This event inspired Dario Fo to write 'Accidental Death of an Anarchist', one of his most successful plays. The play, which premiered in Milan in 1970, features a 'sane madman' who dismantles the police version of the suicide of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who died in similar circumstances in 1969 while in police custody. This edition includes a new prologue by the author.
Dario Luigi Angelo Fo was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. In his time he was "arguably the most widely performed contemporary playwright in world theatre". Much of his dramatic work depends on improvisation and comprises the recovery of "illegitimate" forms of theatre, such as those performed by giullari and, more famously, the ancient Italian style of commedia dell'arte.
