Bertolt Brecht, Bruce Norris
Chicago. A city of jazz and gangsters, prohibition and poverty. Amongst the murk of the Great Depression, there's room for a small time crook like Arturo Ui to make a name for himself.
Ui and his henchmen just want to look after you, to offer protection for workers, for jobs, for businesses. Nothing to fear. But a little bribery here, some harmless corruption there, and soon something much more dangerous takes hold.
Brecht's satirical masterpiece about the rise of a demagogue has been adapted by Pulitzer, Olivier and Tony award-winning American playwright Bruce Norris.
Bruce Norris is the author of Clybourne Park, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2011) as well as the Olivier, Evening Standard, and Tony Awards. Other plays include Downstate (Steppenwolf, National Theatre, Playwrights Horizons) an adaptation of Brecht’s Arturo Ui ...