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Article: Fo's 'Accidental Death': Satire Minus the Subtlety
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- The Washington Post
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- October 27, 2004
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When election tensions go through the roof, must artistic subtlety
go out the window? That's what has happened with "Accidental Death of
an Anarchist," the second offering in the Rorschach Theatre's Dario
Fo Festival.
Director Grady Weatherford has planted so many heavy-handed
contemporary political references throughout this satirical farce --
whose basic script already resonates with political sentiment, as
written by the Nobel Prize-winning Fo -- that one almost wonders
whether he doubts his audience's intelligence.
Here we have an imitation of George W. Bush reading "My Pet Goat."
There we have an arch reference to the terror level rising to
"fuchsia." At one point we even hear a ...