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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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Book category Books in English The arts Theatre studies

• Full title: Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
• Author: Bertolt Brecht
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112
• EAN: 9781472566577
• ISBN: 1472566572
• ID: 02102388
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 116 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 131 × 7 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. December 2013

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