Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a fictional, small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade in the 1930s. The satirical allegory combines Brecht's Epic style of theatre with black comedy and overt didacticism.

Using a wide range of parody and pastiche - from Al Capone to Shakespeare's Richard III and Goethe's Faust - Brecht's compelling parable continues to have relevance wherever totalitarianism appears today.

CAST:
Dagney Ernest
Annie Finnerty
David Greenham
Jen Hodgson
Paul Hodgson
Andrea Itkin
Ryan Jackson
Nicole Provonsil
Jim Reitz
David Troup
Scott Anthony Smith
Lucinda Ziesing

Directed by Paul Hodgson