Presented by the Theatre shop on Jul 09, 1997 at the Actors' Studio.
Notes
Though written in 1941, Aururo Ui was virtually unknown in Britain until Leonard Rossiter's remarkable impersonation of Ui in the long-running 1967 production drew well deserved attention to this savage and witty parable of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht in terms of a small time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's green-grocery trade. Subsequently a filmed version starring Nicol Williamson was shown to great acclaim on BBC-TV. This new translation by Ralph Manheim skillfully captures the wide range of parody and pastiche in the original - from Richard III to Al Capone, from Mark Antony to Faust to Gretchen - without diminishing the horror of the real-life Nazi prototypes.
