"Roll up, Roll up! Ladies and gentlemen
We're thrilled - we're over the moon - to present This gangster spectacle for your enjoyment
A tale of murder, fraud, mass unemployment, Acting lessons, tommy guns, and much much more…”
It’s 1930s Chicago and as the Great Depression hits the city’s fortunes, small-time boss Arturo strikes a deal and makes a killing.
Soon his shadow looms from the markets to the docks. But whether you’re with him or against him, you can’t ignore the resistible rise of Arturo Ui.
Atmospheric, stylish and darkly funny The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a nod to the Film Noir era of Hollywood gangster films. The original play, written in 1941 Germany, is a satirical commentary of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. In a time of economic crisis and with the rise and fall of dictators around the world, scarcely can the play have had such relevance as now.
Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and Nottingham Playhouse Theatre
Walter Meierjohann's direction (of Stephen Sharkey's translation) makes impressive use of the arresting symmetry typical of those great Nazi spectacles... a superb performance... perfectly catches the crowd-swaying rhetoric of demagoguery
The Times
First class
What's on Stage
PHOTOS

CAST
Ian Bartholomew
Arturo Ui
Leanne Best
Barker
Nick Cavaliere
Givola
Eliot Giuralarocca
Dogsborough Jnr/Mulberry/Fish
Mike Goodenough
Giri
William Hoyland
Dogsborough/Sheet/Actor/Judge/Ignatius/Dullfleet
Nicholas Khan
Flake/Ragg/Dempsey
Robin Kingsland
Clark/Bowl/Defence
Nick Moss
Roma
Sion Tudor Owen
Butcher/Trader/Prosec
COMPANY
Bertolt Brecht
Writer
Stephen Sharkey
Translator
Walter Meierjohann
Director
Ti Green
Designer
Mike Gunning
Lighting Designer
Nikola Kodjabashia
Composer
Nikola Kodjabashia
Sound Designer
Louis Price
Costume Designer
Louis Price
AV Designer
Carolina Valdes
Movement Director
Louis Hammond
Casting Director
Jacquie Davies
Costume Supervisor
Mia Theil Have
Assistant Director
Petra Tauscher
Script Consultant
Tim Charrington
Dialect Coach