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* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: It's in the title
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: It's in the title
* [[Gangsterland]]
* [[Gangsterland]]
* [[Hitler Cam]]: Pretty much required for Ui's ending speech. One production managed to pull this off with ''fifteen'' Uis at once.)
* [[Low-Angle Shot]]: Pretty much required for Ui's ending speech. One production managed to pull this off with ''fifteen'' Uis at once.)
* [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]
* [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]
* [[New Era Speech]]: Ui ends the play with one
* [[New Era Speech]]: Ui ends the play with one

Latest revision as of 23:24, 26 April 2022

This play by Bertolt Brecht is an odd fusion. Openly intended as a Roman à Clef detailing Hitler's rise to power, while borrowing from gangster tropes and dialect (Ui is basically Al Capone meets Hitler), it's also written in Shakespearean blank verse and shows a certain influence from Julius Caesar.


Tropes used in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui include: