Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Berkeley Repertory Theatre
2025 Addison Street Berkeley

The New York Times once described Dario Fo, the madcap writer-performer who stunned the world by winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1997, as "a cross between Bertolt Brecht and Lenny Bruce." That mix of bitter brilliance and black humor is at the (dark) heart of Accidental Death of an Anarchist, his comedic masterwork, now at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Following a deadly bank bombing, the police pick up a professed anarchist for questioning. While being interrogated, he "accidentally" falls out of a fourth floor window, with tragically funny results. Actor Steven Epp, who previously wowed audiences as Figaro and The Miser, stars in this inspired production directed by Yale's Christopher Bayes.