lundi 27 mars 2017
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Par Alex Huntsberger
Funnily enough, the one time that director Victor Quezada-Perez inserts a direct reference to Donald Trump into this ghoulish incantation of The Resistible Rise...
Time Out Chicago
lundi 27 mars 2017
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Par Alex Huntsberger
Funnily enough, the one time that director Victor Quezada-Perez inserts a direct reference to Donald Trump into this ghoulish incantation of The Resistible Rise...
chicagotribune.com
vendredi 24 mars 2017
Review: Dark 'Arturo Ui' wasn't intended to be this relevant
Par Kerry Reid
Review: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Trap Door Theatre is Bertolt Brecht's allegory for the rise of Hitler — and the resonances really hit home....
Around the Town Chicago
vendredi 24 mars 2017
“The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” reviewed by Jacob Davis
Par Jacob DAvis
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (pronounced ooey) may be the last historical play you ever want to see become relevant again, but at least under the direction of Victor Quezada-Perez, Trap Door theatre....
chicagocritic.com
mardi 21 mars 2017
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Par Auguste Lisy
Most noticeable of the effects in the production, however, are the red clown noses that adorn every character. These are, at once, richly and effectively symbolic, and symptomatic of the unrelenting comedic style that robs the production of its underlying “horror.” The world to which these red noses introduce us is one in which everyone is, to some conscious degree, implicated in the corruption. When a character dies, his or her red nose is torn...
Newcity Stage
lundi 20 mars 2017
Cauliflower and Killing
Par Jay jay VAn Ort
Kevin Webb, Abby Blankenship, Mike Steele and Casey Chapman/Photo: Beata Pilch RECOMMENDED “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” is not as funny as the red noses would have you think. Not the “ha-ha” sort of funny, anyway. Brecht’s 1941 Chicago mobster story of cauliflower rackets and murder was called a "parable play." As the emcee (David Steiger) tells us from his box, Hitler came to power through small sins and oversights. And when it begins, the...
Chicago Reader
mercredi 22 mars 2017
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Par Dmitry Samarov
Trap Door Theatre, Chicago: Bertolt Brecht set this bludgeoning satire of government corruption in a comic-book 30s gangland Chicago, but wrote it in 1941 to protest Hitler’s rise in his 1933...
Third Coast Review
dimanche 19 mars 2017
Trap Door’s Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Satirizes Rise of a Dictator and Current Political Chaos
Par Nancy Bishop
Chicago gangsters fight over the ownership and expansion of the cauliflower trust into Cicero. You may think that sounds like a farce, but The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a vehicle for Bertolt …...