The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Tabori Translation)

by Bertolt Brecht, George Tabori (Translator)

Overview

Bertolt Brecht
Translated by George Tabori

Drama

Characters: 30 male 5 female

Brecht's shudderingly accurate parallel between Hitler and his henchmen on the one hand and the old crime lords of Chicago on the other is a vigorous eye opener that was produced on Broadway with Christopher Plummer. The Cauliflower Trust in Chicago is in need of help and turns to a racketeer by the name of Arturo Ui to begin a "protection" campaign. His henchmen look astonishingly like Goeb

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780573614736
Publisher:	Concord Theatricals
Publication date:	02/14/2011
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	132
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

A major dramatist of the twentieth century, Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) was the founder of one of the most influential theatre companies, the Berliner Ensemble, and the creator of some of the landmark plays of the twentieth century: The Threepenny Opera, Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.