| Event type: | Theatre Visit |
| Date: | 25/06/2026 |
| Time: | 19:30 |
| Group: | Play Going – Lace Market |
| Venue: | Lace Market Theatre |
| Organiser: |
Richard Hill
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| Cost: | in the Auditorium Adults £15 Concession £13 |
| Booking: | Note that booking is required. |
| by Dario Fo adapted by Tom Basden |
| Originally based on the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing and the death of anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli during interrogation by the Milan police, this adaptation is set in a Contemporary Metropolitan Police Station. After getting himself arrested, the Maniac (a mysterious but dangerously unstable man with a talent for impersonations) manages to convince the police that he is actually the judge overseeing the investigation into the anarchist’s death. He forces the officers to reenact the interrogation, exposing the countless lies and inconsistencies in their story. The whole time, he mercilessly mocks the policemen’s corruption—although they are often too dim-witted to notice—and secretly tape-records all the evidence of their guilt. At the end of the play, he presents the audience with a fateful dilemma that forces them to ask what justice might look like under a thoroughly rotten government. |