Rob Ford and the Mysterious Case of the Flying Anarchist (2011)
Rob Ford and the Mysterious Case of the Flying Anarchist
a play by Matt Jones
based on Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo
Summer 2011: Toronto, Montreal
The next time the G20 comes to town, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is ready, PM Stephen Harper is ready, Police Chief Bill Blair is ready. So when a bomb goes off downtown, scores of protesters are rounded up right away. Everything is going smoothly until an anarchist organizer falls to his death from a window during interrogation. Police reports say it’s an accident. And that it’s a suicide. A lone maniac tries to discover the truth. What was the Mayor doing at the police station that night? Based on Dario Fo’s classic 1970 clown show, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Matt Jones’s adaptation is a pre-emptive attack on Toronto’s new political landscape.
directed by Caroline Fournier; produced by Matt Jones and Andrea Joy Rideout
s t a r r i n g :
Susanna Jones, Kyle Allatt, Mikaela Davies, Caroline Fournier, Vince Benvenuto, Matt Jones
art by David Jones, graphic design by Nairi Khandjian, video by Arshad Khan
click for cast pictures
Press
Toronto Fringe Festival: July 6-16, 2011
St. Vladimir’s Theatre (620 Spadina Avenue)
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 7:00pm
Sunday, July 10, 2011 – 11:00pm
Monday, July 11, 2011 – 4:45pm
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 – 9:30pm
Thursday, July 14, 2011 – 12:00pm
Friday, July 15, 2011 – 8:00pm
Saturday, July 16, 2011 – 1:45pm
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Montreal: August 3-7, 2011
Theatre Ste-Catherine (264 Ste-Catherine Est)
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 – 7:30pm
Thursday, August 4, 2011 – 7:30pm
Friday, August 5, 2011 – 7:30pm
Saturday, August 6, 2011 – 3:00pm
Saturday, August 6, 2011 – 7:30pm
Sunday, August 7, 2011 – 3:00pm
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This play makes no sense whatsoever, and what taste it does have appears quite poor. Need I remind people that the G20 happened under Miller, not Ford? I’m all for political parody, but if you’re going to poke fun of something, at least get your facts straight. It’d be like running a play where Stephen Harper strangles protesters in Shawinigan.
Hi Common Sense!
Thank you for your comment. Unfortunately, in today’s workaday world, we do not always have time to verify facts. This is not the first time we’ve spent months working on a play based on a completely false premise. Our last play was about vampires and climate change, and as everyone knows there’s no such thing as climate change!
No problem. Might I suggest your next play be about a black president who doesn’t care about black people?
Ya mean it isn’t Harper tryin’ to put a strangle hold on protesters?
We’ll be dealing with that in next year’s play: Stephen Harper and the Deadly Kitten Catapult
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Rob Ford and the Mysterious Case of the Flying Anarchist – Toronto Fringe 2011 Press Release | Mooney on Theatre said this on June 30, 2011 at 7:51 pm |
[...] people. One of the suspects is thrown out a window – and a lone maniac investigates. This is Rob Ford and The Mysterious Case of the Flying Anarchist, directed by Caroline Fournier and Matt Jones, and it just gets stranger from there. The show is [...]
Rob Ford and the Mysterious Case of the Flying Anarchist (The Blacklist Committee for Unsafe Theatre) | Mooney on Theatre said this on July 6, 2011 at 10:59 pm |