Described by Brecht as a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all; Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a fictional; small-time Chicago gangsters takeover of the citys greengrocery trade in the 1930s. The satirical allegory combines Brechts Epic style of theatre with black comedy and overt didacticism.Using a wide range of parody and pastiche - from Al Capone to Shakespeares Richard III and Goethes Faust - Brechts compelling parable continues to have relevance wherever totalitarianism appears today.Written during the Second World War in 1941; the play was one of the Berliner Ensembles most outstanding box-office successes in 1959; and has continued to attract a succession of major actors; including Leonard Rossiter; Christopher Plummer; Antony Sher and Al Pacino. This version of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is by Canadian theatre academic Jennifer Wise.
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