{"product_id":"9781408179932","title":"Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui","description":"Author: Brecht,Bertolt\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781408179932\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 25 Apr 2013\u003cbr\u003ePages: 144 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescribed 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.\u003cbr\u003eUsing 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.\u003cbr\u003eWritten 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.\u003cbr\u003eThis version of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is by Canadian theatre academic Jennifer Wise.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46616135434398,"sku":"UBD-9781408179932","price":27.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781408179932.jpg?v=1773809889","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781408179932","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}