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
- sekutzko@illinois.edu
- Views
- 109
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.