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SOU Presents ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’

Mail Tribune – Posted Nov 8, 2016

Small-time gangster Arturo Ui sets out to take over the Chicago cauliflower trade by ruthlessly disposing of the opposition in Bertolt Brecht’s surprisingly contemporary and comical take on the rise of fascism in a free society.

“The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” — written in just a few weeks in 1941 by the German playwright while he waited for a visa to leave Finland for America — is a satirical allegory of the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany prior to World War II.

Learn more about SOU’s ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ on the full article.

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Hitler Look-Alike Found On Stage

Ashland Daily Tidings – Posted Nov. 7 2016

Bertold Brecht left Germany shortly after Hitler came to power in 1933. But Brecht’s dislike of Hitler waned little in self-exile, resulting in the play “The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui.”  Audiences recognize a Hitler-like figure in Arturo Ui, a Chicago mobster trying to monopolize the cauliflower market.  Yes, cauliflower.

Learn more about ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ on the full article.

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Students Create Round-the-Clock Drama

Mail Tribune – Posted Nov. 5 2016

CENTRAL POINT — About 40 students from two local high schools got a concentrated taste of the play production process Friday and Saturday nights.

For the first time, Crater Renaissance Academy’s annual 24 Hour Play Cabaret event, in which students perform short plays written only the night before, has expanded to include a second high school’s drama students, Rogue River High School’s troupe, the Arden Ensemble.

Learn more about the 24 Hour Play Cabaret on the full article.