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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

Beaton, Alistair
Tabori, George
Brecht, Bertolt

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Series: Modern Plays

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ISBN10: 1472566572
ISBN13: 9781472566577
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: Nov 15 2013
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.15 Depth: 7.92
Language: English

Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. 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, originally translated by George Tabori, has been revised by leading Scottish playwright Alistair Beaton.

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