The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350052116
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's some advice: Don't ever underestimate Arturo. You'll be found out and stopped, eventually, Just like I stopped this fuckin' treachery And better late than never. Now ya see What happens when ya fuck with me, ya lousy Rat-fuck bastards? Chicago. A city of jazz and gangsters, prohibition and poverty. Amongst the murk of the Great Depression, there's room for a small time crook like Arturo Ui to make a name for himself. Ui and his henchmen just want to look after you, to offer protection for workers, for jobs, for businesses. Nothing to fear. But a little bribery here, some harmless corruption there, and soon something much more dangerous takes hold. Brecht's satirical masterpiece about the rise of a demagogue has been adapted by Pulitzer, Olivier and Tony award-winning American playwright Bruce Norris. It was published for the world premiere at the Donmar Warehouse, London, which opened on 21 April 2017 starring Lenny Henry.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573614736
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1972 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hitler's rise to power is burlesqued through the description of a gangster syndicate which terrorizes Chicago and its suburbs.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 : 9780413772633
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2002 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated student edition of one of Brecht's most famous plays and a classic of modern literature/theatre. 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 small-time Chicago gangster's takeover ofthe city's greengrocery trade. Using a wide range of parody andpastiche -- from Al Capone to Shakespeare's Richard III and Goethe's Faust-- Brecht's compelling parable continues to have relevance wherever totalitarianism appears today. Writtenduring the Second World War in 1941, the play was one of the BerlinerEnsemble's most outstanding box-office successes in 1959, and hascontinued to attract a succession of major actors, including LeonardRossiter, Christopher Plummer, Antony Sher and Al Pacino. "One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century" Observer

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784782084
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Primer written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world’s leading playwrights, set to images of World War II In this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism. He takes photographs from newspapers and popular magazines, and adds short lapidary verses to each in a unique attempt to understand the truth of war using mass media. Pictures of catastrophic bombings, propaganda portraits of leading Nazis, scenes of unbearable tragedy on the battlefield — all these images contribute to an anthology of horror, from which Brecht’s perceptions are distilled in poems that are razor-sharp, angry and direct. The result is an outstanding literary memorial to World War Two and one of the most spontaneous, revealing and moving of Brecht’s works.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472538188
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good Person Of Szechwan written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Brecht's dark, dazzling world-view...makes an absolutely devastating impact. The play is fuelled by the brilliant perception that everyone requires such a dual or split personality to survive.' Evening Standard Three gods come to earth hoping to discover one really good person. No one can be found until they meet Shen Te, a prostitute with a heart of gold. Rewarded by the gods, she gives up her profession and buys a tabacco shop but finds it is impossible to survive as a good person in a corrupt world without the support of her ruthless alter ego Shui Ta. Brecht's parable of good and evil was first performed in 1943 and remains one of his most popular and frequently produced plays worldwide. This Student Edition features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text. It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui written by Bertolt Brecht and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809005425
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brecht on Theatre written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1964 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays of Brecht translated and edited to explain his theories and discussion of his dramatic works.

Author : Hauke Friederichs
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782834591
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gravediggers written by Hauke Friederichs and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between political factions, the Weimar Republic is in its death throes. Its elderly president Paul von Hindenburg floats above the fray, inscrutably haunting the halls of the Reichstag. In the shadows, would-be saviours of the nation vie for control. The great rivals are the chancellors Franz von Papen and Kurt von Schleicher. Both are tarnished by the republic's all-too-evident failures. Each man believes he can steal a march on the other by harnessing the increasingly popular National Socialists - while reining in their most alarming elements, naturally. Adolf Hitler has ideas of his own. But if he can't impose discipline on his own rebellious foot-soldiers, what chance does he have of seizing power?

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472582748
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertolt Brecht's extraordinary historical novel presents an aspiring scholar's efforts to write an idealized life of Julius Caesar twenty years after his death. But the historian abandons his planned biography, confronted by a baffling range of contradictory views. Was Caesar an opportunist, a permanently bankrupt businessman who became too big for the banks to allow him to fail – as his former banker claims? Did he stumble into power while trying to make money, as suggested by the diary of his former slave? Across these different versions of Caesar's career in the political and economic life of Rome, Brecht wryly contrasts the narratives of imperial progress with the reality of grasping self-interest, in a sly allegory that points to the Weimar Republic and perhaps even to our own times. Brecht reminds his readers of the need for constant vigilance and critical suspicion towards the great figures of the past. In an echo of his dramatic theories, the audience is confronted with its own task of active interpretation rather than passive acceptance -- we have to work out our own views about Mr Julius Caesar. This edition is translated by Charles Osborne and features an introduction and editorial notes by Anthony Phelan and Tom Kuhn.

Author : Neill Lochery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472926129
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Resistible Rise of Benjamin Netanyahu written by Neill Lochery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Netanyahu is one of the longest serving Prime Ministers of Israel. For much of the world, Netanyahu is a right-wing nationalist zealot; for many Israelis he is a centrist who is too soft on Arabs and backs down too easily in a fight. Love him or loathe him, Netanyahu has been at the very centre of Arab-Israeli politics since 1990, when he became the telegenic Israeli spokesman for CNN's coverage of the Persian Gulf War, arguably ushering in the Americanization of the Israeli media. Netanyahu is famous for his TV skills, but there is so much more to reveal - good and bad - about the man and his place in Israeli, Middle Eastern and world political history. At present there is no major profile of Netanyahu in the English language, so the publication of this book is a landmark of considerable importance, especially as in March 2015 he was re-elected for a further term in office. Using the juncture of the Oslo Accords to take the reader back to Netanyahu's formative years, Neill Lochery, a renowned scholar of Middle Eastern politics and history, chronicles not only the Prime Minister's life but also the issues his career has encompassed, from the rise of militant Islam to the politics of oil; from the transformation of Israeli politics by the 24/7 cable news cycle to the US's changing role in the Middle East.