The Gangster Play: CIRCUS/CIRCUS (forcibly adapted from Brecht’s The Resistible Ris or Arturo Ui)
Thursday, April 11, 2024 Presentation: 6:30 – 7:15 p.m., Krannert Room
Performance, begins at 7:30 p.m., Studio Theatre
Presenter Dan Kipp
Directed, adapted, and devised by Anderson/Gliege-Rose and The Company
Brecht’s 1941 satirical allegory of Hitler’s rise to power, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, follows the elevation of a 1930s Chicago mobster who works a corrupt political and economic system to his advantage. Set in a world of gangsters and unprincipled politicians, Brecht shows us – through wry humor – that demagogues rise only through the complicity of enablers.
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