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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ISBN
9781408189603
Publisert
2015
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Methuen Drama
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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