The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Paperback / softback
by Bertolt Brecht
Part of the Modern Plays series
Paperback / softback
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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 gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade in the 1930s. The satirical allegory combines Brecht's Epic style of theatre with black comedy and overt didacticism. Using a wide range of parody and pastiche - from Al Capone to Shakespeare's Richard III and Goethe's Faust - Brecht's 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 Ensemble's 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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:28/02/2013
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- ISBN:9781408179932
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:28/02/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9781408179932
