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* {{Farce}}
* GetOutOfJailFreeCard: Because the maniac is certifiably insane, he has legal protections that prevent public officials from applying a non-clinical or non-psychiatric instruments of restraint.
* GetOutOfJailFreeCard: Because the maniac is certifiably insane, he has legal protections that prevent public officials from applying a non-clinical or non-psychiatric instruments of restraint.
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* GetOutOfJailFreeCard: Because the maniac is certifiably insane, he has legal protections that prevent public officials from applying
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* PoliceBrutality: Which causes the main plot as they apparently interrogated the anarchist so harshly that they actually made him jump from the window. [[spoiler: Taken to extreme levels when it is revealed that the Chief personally tortured him and threw him from the window in a fit of anger because he wouldn't confess to the crimes that he didn't commit and they wanted him to force him to.]]
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* PoliceBrutality: Which This causes the main plot as they apparently interrogated the anarchist so harshly that they actually made him jump from the window. [[spoiler: Taken to extreme levels when it is revealed that the Chief personally tortured him and threw him from the window in a fit of anger because he wouldn't confess to the crimes that he didn't commit and they wanted him to force him to.]]
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* ObfuscatingDisability: The Maniac wears an eyepatch despite having two functioning eyes. He pretends to lose a GlassEye as a distraction several times.
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* ObfuscatingDisability: The Maniac wears an eyepatch despite having two functioning eyes. He eyes, and pretends to lose a GlassEye as a distraction several times.times. He also has a false prosthetic to impersonate the forensic captain.
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* GetOutOfJailFreeCard: Because the maniac is certifiably insane, he has legal protections that prevent public officials from applying a non-clinical or non-psychiatric instruments of restraint.
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* CassandraTruth: Inspector Bertozzo tries telling the others that the maniac is impersonating the judge, but the others are more concerned about the journalist learning that a case is being reopened.
* ImpersonationGambit: The maniac impersonates a judge, then the forensic captain, followed by a bishop. In each step, he keeps the superintendent and his lackies enthralled by the performance.
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* PoliceBrutality: Which causes the main plot as they apparently interrogated the anarchist so harshly that they actually made him jump from the window. [[spoiler: Taken to extreme levels when it is revealed that the Chief personally tortured him and threw him from the window in a fit of anger because he would't wouldn't confess to the crimes that he didn't commit and they wanted him to force him to.]]
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* PosthumousCharacter: The Anarachist of the title is dead at the start of the play, and never actually appears.
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* PosthumousCharacter: The Anarachist Anarchist of the title is dead at the start of the play, and never actually appears.
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* HighAltitudeInterrogation: It is not clear if the police were attempting this on the anarchist and accidentally dropped him, or if they just deliberately pushed/threw him out the window.
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* HighAltitudeInterrogation: It Initially, it is not clear if the police were attempting this on the anarchist and accidentally dropped him, or if they just deliberately pushed/threw him out the window.
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* TheNounWhoVerbed: The title of the Swedish translation of the play translates as ''The anarchist who was thrown out of the window by accident''.
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* HighAltitudeInterrogation: It is not clear if the police were attempting this on the anarchist and accidentally dropped him, or if they just deliberately pushed/threw him out the window.
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''Accidental Death of an Anarchist'' is a farce by by the Nobel Prize winning playwright Dario Fo.
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''Accidental Death of an Anarchist'' is a farce by by the Nobel Prize winning playwright Dario Fo.
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* BombThrowingAnarchists: What the Anarchist of the title is alleged to have been [[spoiler: which is a lie and subverted: the dirty cops were looking for a scapegoat]], and what The Maniac comes across as.
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* BombThrowingAnarchists: What the Anarchist of the title is alleged to have been [[spoiler: which (which is a lie and subverted: the dirty cops were looking for a scapegoat]], scapegoat)]], and what The Maniac comes across as.
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* PlotInstigatingDeath: The so-called 'accidental' death of the Anarchist, and the subsequent inquiry into it are what sets the plot in motion.
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* PlotInstigatingDeath: PlotTriggeringDeath: The so-called 'accidental' death of the Anarchist, and the subsequent inquiry into it are what sets the plot in motion.
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* PlotInstigatingDeath: The so-called 'accidental' death of the Anarchist, and the subsequent inquiry into it are what sets the plot in motion.
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* BombThrowingAnarchists: What the Anarchist of the title is alleged to have been, been [[spoiler: which is a lie and subverted: the dirty cops were looking for a scapegoat]], and what The Maniac comes across as.
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* PoliceBrutalityPoliceBrutality: Which causes the main plot as they apparently interrogated the anarchist so harshly that they actually made him jump from the window. [[spoiler: Taken to extreme levels when it is revealed that the Chief personally tortured him and threw him from the window in a fit of anger because he would't confess to the crimes that he didn't commit and they wanted him to force him to.]]
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* UngratefulBastard: The bad ending becomes really bad because the corrupt, murderous policemen thank Feletti for saving their lives by tying ''her'' and leaving her for dead.
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* WeNeedADistraction: Several times the Maniac distracts the other characters by pretending to lose his (non-existent) GlassEye and getting them to look for it.
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* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: The police claim that the Anarchist either fell out of the window while trying to escape, or threw himself out to commit suicide. Either way, it was most definitely not their fault.
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* IntrepidReporter: Feletti is determined to get to the bottom of what happened to the Anarchist and will let nothing stand in her way. In one possible ending of the play, this goes quite badly for her.
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* DestinationDefenestration: The Anarchist somehow feel out of a window during police interrogation. The Maniac and the police go through several reenactments of how this could have happened.
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* DestinationDefenestration: The Anarchist somehow feel fell out of a window during police interrogation. The Maniac and the police go through several reenactments of how this could have happened.
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* DestinationDefenestration: The Anarchist somehow feel out of a window during police interrogation. The Maniac and the police go through several reenactments of how this could have happened.
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* DrPsychPaitent: The Maniac is being interrogated by Inspector Bertozzo in the police station. After he escapes from Bertozzo, he starts pretending to be the judge who is coming to investigate the death of the anarchist. Everyone believes this.
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* DrPsychPaitent: DrPsychPatient: The Maniac is being interrogated by Inspector Bertozzo in the police station. After he escapes from Bertozzo, he starts pretending to be the judge who is coming to investigate the death of the anarchist. Everyone believes this.
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* DrPsychPaitent: The Maniac is being interrogated by Inspector Bertozzo in the police station. After he escapes from Bertozzo, he starts pretending to be the judge who is coming to investigate the death of the anarchist. Everyone believes this.
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* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: The Anarchist died after "falling" out of the window of the police station where he was being interrogated. Interestingly enough, it was based on RealLife.
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* BombThrowingAnarchists: What the Anarachist Anarchist of the title is alleged to have been, and what The Maniac comes across as.
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* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Maniac
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* AudienceParticipation: The Maniac invites the audience to choose which ending they prefer.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: The Maniac invites the audience to choose which ending they prefer.
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* MistakenForSpecialGuest: As none of the police have met the judge, they are all willing to believe that the Maniac is him.
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''Accidental Death of an Anarchist'' is a farce by by the Nobel Prize winning playwright Dario Fo.
The play opens with Inspector Bertozzo interrogating The Maniac, a histrionic character, on the first floor of the police station. The Maniac, however, 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 named Feletti who is trying to probe the events. The play ends with two alternative endings, one with Feletti 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 what ending is best.
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* BombThrowingAnarchists: What the Anarachist of the title is alleged to have been, and what The Maniac comes across as.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: The Maniac invites the audience to choose which ending they prefer.
* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: The Maniac
* EyepatchOfPower: The Maniac
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* GlassEye: A RunningGag involves The Maniac pretending to lose a glass eye (he doesn't actually have a glass eye) and everyone else stopping to look for it.
* TheInspectorIsComing: The Maniac is able to pull off his impersonation because the police are expecting the visit of a judge to investigate the death.
* ObfuscatingDisability: The Maniac wears an eyepatch despite having two functioning eyes. He pretends to lose a GlassEye as a distraction several times.
* PoliceBrutality
* PosthumousCharacter: The Anarachist of the title is dead at the start of the play, and never actually appears.
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The play opens with Inspector Bertozzo interrogating The Maniac, a histrionic character, on the first floor of the police station. The Maniac, however, 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 named Feletti who is trying to probe the events. The play ends with two alternative endings, one with Feletti 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 what ending is best.
!!Tropes:
* BombThrowingAnarchists: What the Anarachist of the title is alleged to have been, and what The Maniac comes across as.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: The Maniac invites the audience to choose which ending they prefer.
* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: The Maniac
* EyepatchOfPower: The Maniac
* {{Farce}}
* GlassEye: A RunningGag involves The Maniac pretending to lose a glass eye (he doesn't actually have a glass eye) and everyone else stopping to look for it.
* TheInspectorIsComing: The Maniac is able to pull off his impersonation because the police are expecting the visit of a judge to investigate the death.
* ObfuscatingDisability: The Maniac wears an eyepatch despite having two functioning eyes. He pretends to lose a GlassEye as a distraction several times.
* PoliceBrutality
* PosthumousCharacter: The Anarachist of the title is dead at the start of the play, and never actually appears.
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