In 1970, Italian playwright Dario Fo’s play, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, premiered in Milan. A response to the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing and its aftermath, it sparked a conversation on political corruption, police brutality, class conflict and other socio-political crises that gripped Italy then. Cut to 2022, India and the world over, these conflicts still persist, rendering Fo’s iconic piece relevant as ever. And today and tomorrow, a group of theatremakers from an acting school will stage a Hindi adaptation of the play — Ek Aur Durghatna.

Dario Fo. PIC COURTESY/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS