Springfield Contemporary Theatre at SCT Center Stage in Wilhoit Plaza presents "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" June 30-July 16. A bank gets bombed, a suspect dies in custody, and the police inquiry turns into... a masterpiece of comedy? Dario Fo's political farce, "Accidental Death of an Anarchist," was inspired by a true incident: an imposter labeled “The Maniac” impersonates a judge who has multiple guilty defendants on his hands, causing constant chaos in a police station. Gretchen Teague directs the production, which is a Springfield-area premiere, and as “The Maniac” is Equity actor, and new Co-Artistic Director at SCT, Nathan Shelton, who returned to Springfield to help out old friends Lou Schaeffer and Rick Dines. Dines is going to be spending a lot of time on the West Coast, and as the operation of the company is basically a two-person operation—and Lou Schaeffer was understandably loathe to take on ALL of it by himself—they appealed to Nathan Shelton to return to
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