ARTURO WI

Bertolt Brecht

Direction: Kendrim Riani
Playwright: Biljana Krajchevska
Assistant director: Jovan Ristovski
Scenery: Valentin Svetozarev
Costume design: Blagoj Micevski
Composer: Timor Domi
Stage effects and makeup: Stefanija Stojchevska
Poster design: Saso Ilkovski
Inspector: Mirko Lazarevski
Caper: Gordana Mihajlovska
Light-master: Goran Petrovski
Tone-master: Nikolce Terzievski

Premiere: 06.05.2022

Roles:

Arturo Wee – Ivan Jerchich
Roma – Ilina Chorevska
Giuseppe Givola – Nikola Stefanov
Emmanuel Geary – Hari Mihajlovski
Old Dogsbarry – Valentina Gramosli
O'Casey, The defender, Betty Dalfit – Victoria Stepanovska- Jankulovska
Shit, The actor, Ignatius Dalfit, Clark, Pig – Nikola Projchevski
Daisy, Widow Bowl – Sandra Grybowska
Young Ina, Fish – Anastasia Hristovska
Flake, The judge – Aleksandar Dimitrovski
Mulberry, The prosecutor – Petar Spirovski
Butcher, The doctor – Aleksandar Stefanovski

An individual driven by unlimited ambitions who undeservedly manages to climb the ladder of power through crime and pressure to gain the glory of ruling – turns into a schizophrenic beast that becomes very dangerous for all of humanity.
In this play we treat just that and just such an individual.

Kendrim Riani, director

"The Restrained Rise of Arturo Ui" by German playwright and director Bertolt Brecht – a political play written 1941 Mr. during his exile in Finland – is a satirical allegory that through the parable about the fictitious mobster Arturo Ui (who during the Great Depression in 1930 Mr. in Chicago is trying to control and extort the cauliflower trade) actually describes the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany before the start of World War II.
The intimidation, lawlessness, the corruption and violence with which Arturo Ui's close associates build their political-social positions of power (Wee is Hitler, Roma is the commander and co-founder of the Nazi paramilitary unit, WITH, Dogsbary is a war hero and president of the German Reich, Geary is a Hermann Göring member of the leadership of the National Socialist Party, Givola is Joseph Goebbels German politician and Minister of Public Education and Propaganda, The Cauliflower Trust are the representatives of the Prussian Junkers, etc.) are not only the direct image of the strengthening of the fascist regime, but also a repetitive principle that today is more complex and refined to be detected seemingly as a benign quality of governance.
Until when and how much more will morals be deformed, like human greed, which so transparently instructs all social pores, we consciously allow it, or through the "struggle for life we ​​have become" the same, and finally what is the meaning of man's need for limitless power (which is but dust and ashes) – are only part of the issues that we bitterly mock for political and artistic benefit in this theater, while they aspire to our degraded present.

Biljana Krajchevska, playwright

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