Bertolt Brecht: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
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- Kategoria: kaunokirjallisuus, alakategoria: näytelmät
- Materiaali: Pokkari
- Kustantaja: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9781408179932
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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.