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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui


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This menacing parable recasts Hitler as a small time hoodlum in the economic turmoil of gangster controlled 1930s Chicago. Ui is leader of the protection racket that controls the local Cauliflower Trust and hell-bent on taking over the city's entire fruit and veg trade - whatever the cost...
Author Bertolt Brecht

Production details

This new production takes Brecht's vision and places it into the heart of modern Africa. In a world of hyperinflation and a regime governing through terror and extortion, Brecht's comic masterpiece gains a frightening new prescience.

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Company

Producer Fuel
Producer Lyric
Producer Kate McGrath
Translation Ralph Manheim
Director David Farr
Translation Ralph Manheim
Design Ti Green
Music Keith Clauston
Lighting Mike Gunning
Sound Nick Manning
Musical Director Keith Clouston
Performer Lucian Msamati
Performer Jude Aduwudike
Performer Ariyon Bakare
Performer Nyasha Hatendi
Performer Joseph Mydell
Performer Chris Obi
Performer Susan Salmon
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