The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The (Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui)

    Author: Bertolt Brecht (with Margarete Steffin)

    Date Written: 1941

    First Performance: 1958, Stuttgart

    Published: 1957

    First English Translation: 1976

    Genre: Pol. drama in 17 scenes, prologue, and epilogue; German hexameter verse

    Setting: Chicago and Cicero, 1929–38

    Cast: 28m, 2f, extras

Arturo Ui is a small-time gangster who decides to take over control of the greengrocery protection racket in Chicago. First he wins the support of a hitherto decent politician Dogsborough. A projected text reminds us that this was how Hitler won President Hindenburg to his cause. Ui's hoodlums set fire to the warehouse, a crime for which the unfortunate Fish is condemned in a farcical trial...

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