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Illinois Theatre Presents: The Gangster Play: Circus/Circus

Event Type: Performance
Sponsor: Illinois Theatre
Location: Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Goodwin Ave.
Date: Apr 12, 2024 - Apr 20, 2024 7:30 pm
Contact: Sean Kutzko
E-Mail: sekutzko@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar: Campus Humanities Calendar; The Gangster Play: Circus/Circus, adapted from Bertolt 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.