Performance

Venue	Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
	Also: Studio
Town	Outer London
County	Greater London
From	14th February 2008
Opened	20th February 2008
To	15th March 2008
When	19:30
Prices	From £13.00. To £27.00.
Lyric Hammersmith Theatre (V315)
Current/Future Listings
Listings Archive

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

Work:: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (S4752)

This menacing parable recasts Hitler as a small time hoodlum in the economic turmoil of gangster controlled 1930s Chicago. Ui is leader of the protection racket that controls the local Cauliflower Trust and hell-bent on taking over the city's entire fruit and veg trade - whatever the cost...

Author

Bertolt Brecht

Production:: (T1315799173)

This new production takes Brecht's vision and places it into the heart of modern Africa. In a world of hyperinflation and a regime governing through terror and extortion, Brecht's comic masterpiece gains a frightening new prescience.

Producer	Fuel
Producer	Lyric
Producer	Kate McGrath
Translation	Ralph Manheim
Director	David Farr
Translation	Ralph Manheim
Design	Ti Green
Music	Keith Clauston
Lighting	Mike Gunning
Sound	Nick Manning
Musical Director	Keith Clouston
Performer	Lucian Msamati
Performer	Jude Aduwudike
Performer	Ariyon Bakare
Performer	Nyasha Hatendi
Performer	Joseph Mydell
Performer	Chris Obi
Performer	Susan Salmon

Listing:: L54114580

Production details

This new production takes Brecht's vision and places it into the heart of modern Africa. In a world of hyperinflation and a regime governing through terror and extortion, Brecht's comic masterpiece gains a frightening new prescience.

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