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DESPOTS AND FLESHPOTS.('The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui' at Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, New York, New York, and 'Flower Drum Song,' New York, New York)(Theater Review)
In the epilogue to "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui," Bertolt Brecht's 1941 Chicago-gangster parable about Hitler's ascent to power (revived by the National Actors Theatre at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, at Pace University), the title character comes downstage, strips off his mustache, and speaks directly to the audience. "Don't yet rejoice in his defeat, you men!" he cautions. "The bitch that bore him is in heat again." The forces that gave rise to the tyranny of the thirties--economic panic, a hysterical and fearful populace, a call for preemptive strikes against enemies, a bullying pressure to conform to the will of authority, abuses of the rule of ...
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