In partnership with Canadian Stage, the BMO Lab presented a workshop production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at Toronto’s Berkeley Street Theatre on February 25th and 26th of 2022.
Two women conquer a city and – maybe – the world!
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht was written in Finland in 1941 over a period of three weeks while the author and his family hoped and waited for their US-visas to escape the fast-approaching armies of Nazi-Germany. Intended for American audiences, it did not get a theatrical release there and was first produced in 1958 in Germany.
A comedy of horrors, a parable, a thriller full of surprising turns, a love story, a grandiose play on words. We meet bankers and gangsters, crooks big and small, greed and crime in a tight embrace. We observe countless murders without any consequences for the killers. We see how economic interests translate into criminal actions and how fake news transforms into political dogma. Remind you of anything? Please notice the “resistible” in the title!
Cast and Crew
Written by: Bertolt Brecht // Directed by: Johanna Schall
Cast: Ryan Cunningham, Teodora Djuric, Darcy Gerhart, Valerio Greganti, Sébastien Heins, James Hyett, Adrian Pavone, Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah, Sina Sasanifard, and Carly Street
Lighting Designer: Aidan Ware // Sound Designer and Composer: Eliot Britton // Production Designer: Snezana Pesic // Stage Manager: Seren Lannon
Technical Direction / Director of the BMO Lab: David Rokeby // Artist-in-Residence at the BMO Lab: Bronwen Sharp
Technology in Arturo Ui
Body Pose Recognition for Sound, Lighting and Video Cues
Technology in Arturo Ui:
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