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Krannert Center Event - The Gangster Play: Circus/Circus
Sat, Apr 13
|Urbana
Illinois Theatre
Time & Location
Apr 13, 2024, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM CDT
Urbana, 500 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
About the Event
Directed, adapted, and devised by Anderson/Gliege-Rose and The Company
Brecht’s 1941 satirical allegory of Hitler’s rise to power, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, follows the elevation of a 1930s Chicago mobster who works a corrupt political and economic system to his advantage. Set in a world of gangsters and unprincipled politicians, Brecht shows us—through wry humor—that demagogues rise only through the complicity of enablers.
This event contains adult content.
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