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A witty and savage satire on the rise to power of Adolf Hitler, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui recasts him as small-time Chicago gangster, Arturo Ui, who bullies his way from mere control of the local Cauliflower Trust to take over the city's greengrocery trade.

This menacing parable, written by Bertolt Brecht in 1941 at the height of Nazi supremacy in Europe, captures the build-up to horrors that were to be unleashed by the Third Reich in the later years of the Second World War. From Hitler's beginnings as a political upstart, his appointment as German chancellor, the destruction of the Reichstag, the murder of Austria's chancellor and the conquest of central Europe, Arturo Ui recreates an atmosphere that is as deeply unsettling as it is darkly comic.

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui was presented in the round in Fitzpatrick Hall and was entered for the Sunday Times National Student Drama Festival in Scarborough.

The world was almost won by such an ape!

The nations put him where his kind belong.

But don't rejoice too soon at your escape -

The womb he crawled from is still going strong.