<DIV><p>"I ought to warn you that the author of this sick little play, Dario Fo, has the traditional, irrational hatred of the police common to all narrowminded left-wingers and so I shall, no doubt, be the unwilling butt of endless anti-authoritarian jibes"—Inspector Bertozzo, Central Italian Police HQ</p><p>In its first two years of production, Fo's notorious <I>Accidental Death of an Anarchist</I> was seen by over half a million people. It has since been performed all over the world and become a classic. A sharp and hilarious satire on police corruption, it concerns the case of an anarchist railway worker who, in 1969, "fell" to his death from a police headquarters window.</p><p>"A marvelous concept: a zany political farce..."—Michael Billington, <I>Guardian</I></p><p>"Fo's play absorbs social indignation into mainstream Italian comedy"—Irving Wardle, <I>The Times</I></p></DIV>