The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

“You don't know me from nothing
What you may have heard - Forget that.
My name is blackened by the envious, my motives are misunderstood, left, right and centre.
Rumour has a hundred tongues and all of them are vicious"

1930s Chicago. A time of unemployment. A time of fear. A time of corruption. A time for a small time gangster and his army to seize absolute power...

Atmospheric, stylish, thrilling and darkly funny. Written by Liverpool playwright Stephen Sharkey (The May Queen) this new potent translation of Brecht’s shocking 1941 satire of Hitler's rise to power is a striking production directed by Walter Meierjohann. Scarcely can the play have been more relevant than now.

**** The Times

**** The Guardian

**** The Independent

**** What's On Stage

8 / 10 Liverpool ECHO

9 / 10 Click Liverpool

9 / 10 Liverpool Confidential

***** University of Liverpool

4 / 5 Seen Magazine

A Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company Production