Port Townsend High School holds auditions for “The Accidental Death of an Anarchist,” an Italian satire by Dario Fo, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., Thursday-Friday, Sept. 7-8 at the high school, 1500 Van Ness St.

Auditions are open to all Jefferson County students of high school age, including home-schoolers.

Copies of the script are to be available at the high school in the school library for overnight checkout.

There are seven roles, which can be played by male or female actors. Production dates for this show are the first three weekends in November.

The play is a farce based on the real-life events surrounding Italian railroad worker and anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who fell – or was thrown – to his death from the fourth-floor window of a Milan police station in 1969. Full of the Marx brothers’ style of physical comedy, this show will be a wild ride, said director Jennifer Nielsen.

The play has been performed across the world in more than 40 countries and is the most internationally recognized play by Dario Fo, recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nielsen says she chose the play for the comedy, but also because “great literature is always relevant, and there are certainly connections one can make to the current political situation in our country today.”

Contact Jennifer Nielsen at 360-379-6761 or pogoseb@earthlink.net for more information.