Chicago.  A city of jazz and gangsters, prohibition and poverty.  In the shadows of the Great Depression, there’s room for a small-time crook with big boss ambitions.  Arturo Ui and his henchmen claim to offer protection – for workers, for jobs, for businesses.  Nothing to fear.  But behind the promises lurk intimidation, bribery and blood.  What starts as petty corruption swells into a ruthless bid for power, as Ui’s swagger spreads from the markets to the courts and the streets.  Both comic and chilling, Brecht’s parable exposes how easily the absurd can become the inevitable – if no one stands in the way. Ui’s rise is “resistible” not because it is unlikely, but because it thrives on the silence of those who choose not to resist…

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