WHAT IS ARTURO UI ABOUT? "The play is not so much an attack on Hitler, but rather upon the complacency of the people who were able to resist him, but didn't." Bertolt Brecht
PLOT SUMMARY: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is set in gangster America and follows the life of Arturi Ui as he gradually rises to power by bribing, corrupting and murdering those standing in his way. Although it is written as a parody of the rise of Adolf Hitler, the gangster references also point the audience towards Al Capone, and there are also references to the rise of Richard III.
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