The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui – review

Playhouse, LiverpoolWhat were the circumstances behind Hitler's rise to power? The usual answer involves rampant inflation, the weakness of the Weimar administration and the punitive terms of the Treaty of Versailles: though Bertolt Brecht has it that it was a dispute over cauliflowers.Brecht wrote this political parable in 1941, en route to settling in America. It combines a darkly satirised version of both the old world he was fleeing and the new one he was travelling to, with the events leadi...

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