After false hopes of a return to the physical stage, theatrical productions have now been consigned to the online medium all over again with the outbreak of the pandemic’s third wave. But a play reading being organised this week reverses the role that actors and audience members have, because people who register for it and opt to read the script will be given an opportunity to do so. They will assume the role of a character from Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and it doesn’t matter if they have had any prior experience in theatre or not.

Dario Fo