Mark Gatiss: fascism is not inevitable

Mark Gatiss: fascism is not inevitable

The Resistible rise of Arturo Ui, Bertolt Brecht’s darkly comic allegory of authoritarianism is a play that straddles past and present. Written in 1941, it was conceived as a warning; a grotesque gangster-inflected retelling of the rise of Adolf Hitler. It holds out the warning that such a rise is not, in fact, inevitable – it can be resisted. In a new production, Mark Gatiss steps into the role of Arturo Ui, a character who is at once absurd, r…

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui - Swan Theatre, Stratford upon Avon

Writer: Bertolt Brecht Translator: Stephen Sharkey Director: Seán Linnen Brecht wrote The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui in 1941 while he was in Finland waiting for a visa to enter the United States, having fled Nazi Germany eight years earlier. It was only a year since Charlie Chaplin had brought out his own parody of [...] The post The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui – Swan Theatre, Stratford upon Avon appeared first on The Reviews Hub.