The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
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Ashley Jensen: 'Ricky and Extras changed my life'...uniform." One of Jensen's earliest jobs was with a Scottish theatre company alongside David Tennant. "It was a Brecht play called The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, which is about the rise of Hitler," she says with a grimace. "We did this... In this article: Ashley Jensen, Ricky Gervais, Botox, Extras, Martin Freeman, Ugly Betty, Louisiana, and David Tennant |
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washingtonpost.com | November 17, 2009
Backstage: D.C.'s Catalyst Theater is disbanding
...Theater Company, the small, ambitious, experimental troupe that has garnered enthusiastic notices for shows such as "1984" and "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui," is disbanding because of financial troubles. The company's move last season...
In this article: Washington and MCC Theater
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Playbill.com | November 16, 2009
Full Casting Announced for Peter Hall's Midsummer, Starring Judi Dench
...plays Puck. His theatre credits include Victory (Theatre Royal Bath). Susan Salmon plays Hippolyta. Her theatre credits include The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Lyric Hammersmith), Big White Fog (Almeida), Macbeth (Out of Joint) and...
In this article: Judi Dench, National Theatre, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Haymarket, Hay Fever, Twelfth Night, and Theatre Royal
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Wikipedia | October 25, 2009
Christian Haren
...Are Ringing '', Otto Preminger's ''In Harm's Way, and Billy Rose's Jumbo . He starred on Broadway in the Bertolt Brecht play The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui produced by Tony Richardson. He is best remembered for playing the role of the...
In this article: AIDS, San Francisco, Bertolt Brecht, MGM, Tony Richardson, Vincente Minnelli, and Bells Are Ringing
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Berliner Ensemble
...Children in 1949. Brecht also directed The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and with Erich Engel, Life of Galileo. After Brecht's death, 3 plays, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Schweik in the Second World War and The Visions of Simone Machard, had...
In this article: Berliner Ensemble, Heiner Muller, Helene Weigel, Hanns Eisler, Alexander Frey, Wolfgang Langhoff, and Paul Dessau
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Greene Shoots Theatre
...Chambers Street. The company are currently involved in presenting a new adaptation of Moliere's Tartuffe by Rob Messik also at C Venue. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui 2002 <br /> The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui 2003 (Three Weeks)<br />
In this article: Physical theatre, Tartuffe, Berkhamsted School, The Government Inspector, Nikolai Gogol, Bertolt Brecht, and Moliere
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Guardian Unlimited | November 18, 2008
Theatre review, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Abbey, Dublin
...the familiar goose-stepping figure. It is one of many moments to savour from this confidently un-Brechtian Brecht production. Theatre review, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Abbey, Dublin This article appeared in the Guardian on...
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Guardian Unlimited | February 21, 2008
Theatre review: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui / Lyric Hammersmith, London
Review: 3 stars Brecht's totalitarian allegory loses its vigour in Africa, thinks Michael Billington
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2007 HELEN HAYES AWARD NOMINEES
...Labor's Lost," Shakespeare; "Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis," Woolly Mammoth Theatre; "Measure for Measure," Folger Theatre; "Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui," Catalyst Theater. New play/musical: "3/4 of a Mass for St. Vivian," Theater...
In this article: William Shakespeare, An Enemy of the People, Woolly mammoth, Caroline, or Change, Spamalot, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Light in the Piazza, Love's Labor's Lost, and Measure for Measure
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Catalyst's 'Rise' Skewers Fascism Masterfully
"Ui" is the memorable surname of the title character in Bertolt Brecht's Fascism allegory "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui." But after an evening with Catalyst Theater's enterprising revival of the play, the name you'll want to commit to...
In this article: Fascism, Bertolt Brecht, Skewers, Nazism, and Cadre
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entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
Why aren't we alienated by Bertolt Brecht?
Who now would stage The Mother, in which an unpolitical worker's wife becomes a crusading activist after her son's arrest? Even The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, which involves a mobster who takes over Chicago's cauliflower trade, seems...
In this article: Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, Mother Courage, Antony Sher, Ideology, Nazism, Communism, Capitalism, and Berliner Ensemble
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (original German title: Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui) is a play by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, originally written in 1941. It chronicles the rise of Arturo Ui, a fictional '30s Chicago mobster, and his attempts to control the cauliflower racket by ruthlessly disposing of the opposition.
It was written by Brecht in only three weeks in 1941 whilst in exile in Helsinki awaiting a visa to enter the US. The play was not produced on the stage until as late as 1958, and not until 1961 in English. In spite of this, Brecht never envisioned a German language version of the play, intending it for the American stage.
The play is consciously a highly satirical allegory of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany, whose rise Brecht represented in parallel to that of Ui. All the characters and groups in the play had direct counterparts in real life, with Ui representing Hitler, his henchman Ernesto Roma representing Ernst Röhm, Emanuele Giri representing Göring, the Cauliflower Trust representing the Prussian Junkers, the fate of the town of Cicero standing for the Anschluss in Austria and so on. In addition, every scene in the play is based on a real event, for example the warehouse fire which represented the fire at the Reichstag, or the Dock Aid Scandal which represented the Osthilfeskandal (East Aid) scandal. The play is similar to the film The Great Dictator (1941), which also featured an absurd parody of Hitler by a hero of both Brecht and Hitler, Charlie Chaplin.
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