This tool is unavailable at the moment. Please try again later.
Start planning your production with a cost estimate you can save and share with your team. Just answer a few questions.
This estimator is only for amateur productions. Professional customers should contact the Licensing department directly to enquire about a title's availability: [email protected]
Important: The cost quoted is an estimate only and may differ when you apply for a licence.
A SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. TITLE
Full-Length Play, Satire/Political Satire / 2w, 28m
Bertolt Brecht, Andy de la Tour
Chronicles the rise of Arturo Ui, a fictional 1930s Chicago mobster, and his attempts to control the cauliflower racket by ruthlessly disposing of the opposition. The play is a satirical allegory of the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany prior to World War II.
A liquidity crisis in the American financial sector. Stock-markets plunge. A bankrupt business consortium extorts a big dirty bailout from City Hall as ordinary people lose their jobs. Into this panicked democracy steps the gangster and demagogue Arturo Ui. Offering strong protection for a frightened city - with a reign of armed terror. Bertolt Brecht's most detailed dramatic analysis of the economic and psychological roots of fascism and society's easy, although never inevitable, acquiescence to it.
Announcer Flake, Caruther, Butcher, Mulberry and Clark (businessmen, heads of the Cauliflower Trust) Sheet (dockyard owner) Old Dogsborough Young Dogsborough Arturo Ui (gang boss) Ernest Roma (his lieutenant) Emanuele Giri and Giuseppe Givola (gangsters - florists) Tedd ragg (reporter for The Star) Dockdaisy Bowl Goodwill and Gaffles (City Councillors) O'Casey Actor Hook (wholsesale vegetable dealer) Bodyguards Gunmen Vegetable dealers from Chicago and Cicero Newspaper reports Fish, a defendant Defence Counsel Judge Doctor Prosecutor Woman Young Inna (Roma's confidant) Short man Ignatius Dullfeet Betty Dullfeet (his wife) Dogsborough's servant
1930s Chicago