Illinois Theatre Presents: The Gangster Play/Circus Circus (Forcibly Adapted from Brecht's The Resistable Rise of Arturo UI)
- Event Type
- Performance
- Sponsor
- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
- Location
- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Goodwin Ave
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- Sean Kutzko
- sekutzko@illinois.edu
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- Originating Calendar
- Krannert Center
- 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.