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	GradeSaver: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Essay: Sequence of Events in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ui uses his violent methods to clear Dogsborough's name by killing Sheet, who he claims is the guilty one, and Bowl, the only witness to the true course of events.
		Arturo Ui, with the influential Dogsborough as his associate and with other supporters chosen to appeal to popular sentiment, begins to impose his ideas on the society of vegetable dealers.
		This is where Ui and his men step in and collect portions of the dealers' profits in return for their "service." Thus, the gangsters, led by Arturo Ui, have risen to an ultimate position of control over this society.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/arturo/essay1.html (915 words)

	USATODAY.com - Do not resist 'Rise of Arturo Ui' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ui isn't as spiffy a dresser as his fellow Brechtian protagonist, for one thing, and his charms don't drive women to fits of catty and self-destructive behavior.
		Pacino's Ui is as hilarious as he is horrific, a self-professed humble son of the Bronx with lousy posture and a persecution complex.
		Ui's cohorts are portrayed with a similar mix of shrewdness and raw vitality.
	www.usatoday.com /life/theater/reviews/2002-10-21-arturo-ui_x.htm (599 words)

	This is Really Brechtian, Right? The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui @ UW School of Drama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a play that examines the corruption of the most pure individuals, a play that examines the notion of "character." It is play that could have been written in 1996.
		The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui takes place in Depression-Era Chicago and tells the story of the "washed-up" gangster boss, Arturo Ui, who uses shady methods to gain power, not entirely unlike the political campaigns in the United States.
		Ui examines the notion that this could happen anywhere, particularly in a successful and powerful country like America.
	archives.thedaily.washington.edu /1996/103196/arturo103196.html (834 words)

	RESISTABLE RISE OF ARTURO UI, THE - play - Al Pacino's Loft
		Starring Al Pacino, "Arturo Ui" is the thinly veiled story of the irresistible rise of 1930s Nazism in Germany as seen through 1920s gangsterism in Chicago.
		The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui Al Pacino is in the title role of Brecht's satire about the apathetic response to Hitler's rise to power.
		At first, Ui is a crude, unintelligible, street hood surrounded by characters who are caricatures of Hitler's Goebbels (a grotesque Steve Buscemi), Goering (a kill-happy John Goodman) and Ernst Rohm (a thuggish, gay Chazz Palminteri), trailed by a half-naked junkie (Lothaire Bluteau).
	velvet_peach.tripod.com /fzpacresistablerise.html (6070 words)

	Frank Theatre's 2001 THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI
		UI is a viciously funny “parable play,” written but rarely performed in the United States.
		Ui is a tremendously difficult piece to stage (even more so in light of recent events), and everyone who has worked on it has truly put his or her heart into it.
		Her Ui stays within the boundaries of suave menace, never betraying an unpredictability or a sudden pop of savage caprice, or descending into a cooing huckster.
	www.franktheatre.org /past_prod/ui.html (2313 words)

	Theatre
		Written in 1941, “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” is a political satire about the making of a fascist as it re-tells the story of Hitler and the Nazi era.
		Roma implores Ui to get rid of Givola and Giri, who are collaborating with the Trust, through a surprise raid and then to take over Cicero without any regard for the Trust, as it seems that the Trust wants to use Dogsborough’s remorseful testament to compromise Ui and get rid of him.
		Ui agrees, but then changes his mind: he prefers to come to an understanding with the Trust and to have Roma with his followers shot instead.
	www.lafn.org /~cymbala/arturoui.html (2476 words)

	Leonard Rossiter.com: Career - Arturo Ui
		It was in 1967, after nearly one hundred theatre performances, that Leonard Rossiter's portrayal of Arturo Ui rocketed him to stardom, the West End, and into our homes in his memorable television roles.
		Ui and his group of maniacal followers force their way into power, ruthlessly exterminating dissenters and critics and finally achieving support and recognition from the vegetable traders of Chicago and Cicero.
		His Arturo Ui was an unforgettable experience - a great performance, one of great power, dazzling comic invention and marvellous physical dexterity." - David Graham, co-star.
	www.leonardrossiter.com /ArturoUi.html (1904 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: An Irresistible Rise
		AT THE beginning of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Professor Richard Hunt, who teaches a Core course called "Culture and Society in Weimar and Nazi Germany," delivers a short lecture on Brecht, while a rogues gallery of Nazi thugs, whom Brecht's parable has transformed into Chicago gangsters, listens in bemusement.
		Alexander shows Roma's fierce loyalty to Ui, even when Ui betrays him, but he is also believably vengeful when he returns as a ghost to haunt Ui, a la Banquo.
		The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a daunting play, more because of its length (two hours and 45 minutes), its large cast of characters, its blank verse and its strange music, rather than its theme.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=138731 (558 words)

	The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Bridewell, London \| \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		Poster for The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Phil Willmott proves why he is one of the most versatile, best and amazingly prolific directors around with this revival of Bertolt Brecht's 1941 parable in which Hitler is parodied as a Chicago gangster.
		Arturo Ui takes advantage of political corruption and human weakness to take over the city vegetable trade, worm his way into power and become invincible.
		There are some great scenes, in particular the one in which a drunken classical actor teaches Arturo Ui the tricks of his trade, which we subsequently see the dictator employing to great effect.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /critic/review/0,1169,777867,00.html (357 words)

	Goethe-Institut Playbill - German Theatre in Australia - The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui - Reviews
		Ui is a charismatic and powerful leader who in spite of his lack of political background and brutish ways (he is just a poor “boy from the Bronx”) manages to demand loyalty from his followers and grow into a force that will stop at nothing.
		Brecht wrote The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui in 1941 Finland, after exiling himself and his family from Germany in 1933.
		It is a parable of the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party, relocated to 1930s Chicago.
	www.goethe.de /ins/au/lp/prj/gta/pla/npr/aui/rev/en353442.htm (511 words)

	The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
		Ui forges an alliance with Mayor Dogsborough, symbol of integrity and honesty.
		A mirror is placed in front of the audience facing the stage as Ui is taught how to project himself and conjure theatrical effects, to create the illusion of power and respectability, reflecting back an image of what the people want to see, 'God is dead but people still believe in Dogsborough'.
		Actors appear in the audience cheering Ui at his simulated Nuremberg rally as possibilities to halt his inexorable rise are ignored due to human corruption and greed.
	www.culturewars.org.uk /2002-11/arturo.htm (351 words)

	"Arturo Ui" by Helen Chavez
		Brecht wrote The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui in exile in Finland in 1941, appalled by the extreme policies and omnipotent evil of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich.
		But Ui is a paranoid sociopath, alternately swayed by the advice of his Lieutenant, Ernesto Roma, and by his own fanatical self-aggrandising nature.
		On Hitler's rise to power in 1933, Brecht fled Germany and took refuge in Denmark, Sweden and Finland, and it was during this Scandinavian exile that Brecht wrote The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, just before his final exile to the United States.
	www.theperlmanpages.i12.com /Theatre/artui1.htm (731 words)

	village voice > theater > The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht by Alisa Solomon
		His play, after all, is an economic parable that traces the rise of Hitler by comparing the fascists to a bunch of gangsters running a protection racket for greengrocers.
		Emphasizing the "resistible" in the title, the play shows how Ui and his gang manipulate public fear and need during a depression by promising homeland security and economic recovery.
		Unlike half a dozen Arturo Uis I've seen in which the "humble son of the Bronx" is sporting a little mustache and swastika-like insignia by play's end, director Josh Chambers does not make this simple error in his smart but uneven new production with Fovea Floods.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0235/solomon2.php (1468 words)

	village voice > theater > The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht by Michael Feingold
		Ergo, Arturo Ui, which might be described as Hollywood's atonement for having treated Bertolt Brecht so rottenly in his lifetime.
		Ui, curiously, is depicted as an alien New Yorker in Chicago—"a simple son of the Bronx." Rather than the typically Bavarian Hitler, this evokes the Nazi propaganda image of the Jews as an "alien race." As for motives, Ui just likes to kill and possess power.
		Pacino's Ui, exciting in its twisty physicality and always on the mark emotionally, is shot down by his voice, which has one high, throaty color left in it—no match for a role of Shakespearean length.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0244/feingold.php (1730 words)

	The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (original German title: Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui) is a play by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, originally written in 1941.
		All the characters and groups in the play have direct counterparts in real life, with Ui representing Hitler, his henchman Ernesto Roma representing Ernst Röhm, Emanuele Giri representing Göring, the Cauliflower Trust representing the Prussian Junkers and so on.
		The part of Arturo Ui has been played by a number of notable actors including Al Pacino, Leonard Rossiter, Antony Sher, Griff Rhys Jones and Adam Silkey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Resistible_Rise_of_Arturo_Ui (339 words)

	Goethe-Institut Playbill - German Theatre in Australia - Productions - The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
		Brecht wrote “The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui” within three weeks during exile in Finland in 1941.
		In this comic parable Hitler is presented in the figure of Arturo Ui, a small time gangster who tries to take over Chicago’s green groceries trade.
		Arturo’s ascent resembles Hitler’s rise to power, however, it clearly is portrayed as one which is stoppable.
	www.goethe.de /ins/au/lp/prj/gta/pla/npr/aui/enindex.htm (203 words)

	The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui
		Brecht's savage satire, The Resistible Rise of Arturo
		Hitler's rise to power and serves as a warning to future generations of all nations.
		What is true is that in the splashy, star-packed new revival of Bertolt Brecht's Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, Mr.
	www.pacinoworldwide.com /id65.html (471 words)

	Carlton Dramatic Society - The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertholt Brecht
		A chilling reminder that greed and complacency are all it takes for evil to thrive, The Resistible Rise to Arturo Ui chronicles a small-town gangster's takeover of the local green goods trade.
		Set amidst the economic turmoil of gangster-controlled Chicago in the 1930s, the play is a direct and thinly veiled attack on German apathy towards the threat of Hitler's rise to power, and a warning to future generations.
		Initially dismissed as an uncouth upstart, the gangster Ui uses a mixture of violence, incendiary speech and mesmerizing rhetoric to further his mafia-like promotion of brotherhood and blood ties.
	www.carltondrama.org.uk /productions/arturoui/arturoui_index.php (247 words)

	The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui: review on TheaterMania.com
		When a production is star-studded, as the National Actors Theatre presentation of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is, there's the possibility it will also be star-stunted in the sense that the focus will be on performers rather than on what's being performed.
		The primary reason for that commendable situation is that the true star of this Arturo Ui is a man who calls attention to himself only by maximizing the script's potential to astonish and affright: director Simon McBurney.
		Not only is Arturo Ui written in iambic pentameter, but Brecht liberally pulls quotes intact -- and not so intact -- from the Bard as a way of noting how the locus of 20th-century tragedy has shrunk.) Throughout, McBurney has the ensemble scurrying around like ants in a besieged colony.
	www.theatermania.com /news/reviews/index.cfm?story=2699&cid=1 (1369 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Collected Plays: Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui: Vol 6 (Methuen Modern Plays): Books: Bertolt Brecht,John ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In this savage and witty parable, the rise of Hitler is recast as a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade.
		Brecht perfectly displays the rise of a true evil, Hitler in the disguise of a gangster from the Bronx.
		Reading the play you are left to wonder why nothing was done to stop Ui (Hitler), but as Brecht highlights in his epilogue, there will always be people like this in society, and we had a lucky escape.
	amazon.co.uk /Collected-Plays-Resistible-Arturo-Methuen/dp/0413478106 (697 words)

	The Methuen Bookshop > Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (Ed) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		» Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (Ed)
		In this savage and witty parable written in exile in 1941, Brecht recasts the rise of Hitler as a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade.
		This prizewinning translation by Ralph Manheim skilfully captures the wide range of parody and pastiche in the original - from Richard III to Al Capone, from Mark Antony to Faust - without diminishing the horror of the real-life Nazi prototypes.
	www.methuenbookshop.co.uk /shop/product.php/47/0 (218 words)

	Arturo Ui (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Over 500 of you saw our production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at Intersection for the Arts - thank you for all the support!
		It is a fascinating play that asks tough questions about culpability in Hitler's rise to power, and it spurred many interesting conversations over the course of the run.
		We were proud to bring the play to you, and hope that our work continues to inspire communal exploration in the future.
	www.untheatre.org /arturo.html (214 words)

	UI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ui is a digraph used in some writing systems
		Ui is the name of an ancient Phoenician colony located at the site of modern-day Tripoli in Libya
		Arturo Ui, a fictional character from The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UI (118 words)

	Scent of a gangster \| csmonitor.com
		The opening scene – introducing a motley group of gangsters – sets the pattern for the ensemble's acting, and the virtually seamless scene changes as Arturo Ui and his cohorts become increasingly menacing and powerful.
		• 'The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui' is being presented at the 750-seat Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University through Nov. 3.
		The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui National Actors Theatre
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/1011/p19s02-almp.html (731 words)

	Wimbledon Studio: The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui
		Wimbledon Studio: The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui Main Theatre
		Fresh from their sell-out show Stags and Hens, Carlton Dramatic Society bring Brecht's savage and witty parable of Hitler's rise to power.
		The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui chronicles a small-town gangster's takeover of the local greengrocer's trade.
	www.theambassadors.com /wimbledonstudio/sp_p2859.html (97 words)

	Playbill News: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui With Al Pacino Opens Oct. 3
		Playbill News: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui With Al Pacino Opens Oct. 3
		This production of Arturo Ui features a translation by George Tabori, and the creative team includes Robert Innes Hopkins (set and costume designer), Paul Anderson (lighting designer), Christopher Shutt (sound designer), Christina Cunningham (costumes), Ruppert Bohle (projection designer) and Robert-Charles Vallance (hair, wig and make-up designer).
		The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui will play Pace University's Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/72496.html (686 words)

	Playbill News: Alexander, Duchovny, Field and Kellerman Take Part in Arturo Ui Benefit Reading
		A host of celebrities will take part in a reading of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Oct. 2 to benefit the Edgemar Center for the Arts in California.
		As of press time, those scheduled to take part in the one-night-only staged reading of the Bertolt Brecht play are Jason Alexander, David Duchovny, Sally Field, Jessica Capshaw, Sally Kellerman, Kimberly Williams, Sharon Lawrence, Harry Hamlin, Larry Moss, Jennifer Grant, Coucilman Antonio Villaraigosa and Attorney General Bill Lockyear with a special appearance by Garry Shandling.
		Originally written in 1941, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui "chronicles the rise of Arturo Ui, a Chicago mobster, and his attempts to control the cauliflower racket by ruthlessly disposing of the opposition.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/88459.html (443 words)

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