Presented by the Resident Ensemble Players,
Thompson Theatre, Roselle Center for the Arts
1930's Chicago. Depression grips the Windy City. Business is bad and the members of The Cauliflower Trust bemoan their losses because no one has any money to pay rent, let alone buy vegetables. Enter Arturo Ui, a charismatic but crazy local gangster bent on gaining power far beyond the city through machine-guns and murder. Brecht's hilarious farce is the thinly veiled story of the irresistible rise of 1930s Nazism in Germany as seen through 1920s gangsterism in Chicago.
