Theatre News and Reviews
Check out all the great reviews for STC’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui! The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui | Sydney Theatre Company – Australian Stage (01apr18) Hugo Weaving playing Arturo Ui is undeniably a genius bit of theatrical alchemy […] With such a talented ensemble cast around him, it almost seems redundant to say that Hugo Weavingdelivers […]
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Australian Stage Jack Teiwes April 1, 2018 Left – Colin Moody and Hugo Weaving. Cover – Hugo Weaving (background) and Monica Sayers. Photos – Daniel Boud Perhaps the most anticipated production on STC’s slate this year, and seemingly their most heavily-advertised ever, Hugo Weaving playing Arturo Ui is undeniably a genius bit of theatrical alchemy. Those who have followed […]
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The Daily Telegraph March 31, 2018 WHAT: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui WHERE: Roslyn Packer Theatre WHEN: until April 28 RATING: FOUR AND A HALF STARS THE vast stage is a hive of activity as the audience take their seats. The actors wander around, stretching, having hair and make-up done, and getting into character. Camera operators are also […]
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The Daily Telegraph Elizabeth Fortescue March 29, 2018 In the STC’s new production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui, onstage filming brings the actors so close you can pretty much see the pores of their skin. In the case of Hugo Weaving, you can watch the sweat pouring off him in streams, […]
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Limelight Magazine Angus McPherson March 28, 2018 Hugo Weaving’s brilliant Arturo Ui is terrifying because he’s familiar. Bertolt Brecht wrote The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui in 1941 as a parable of Hitler’s rise to power, setting the action in 1930s Depression-era Chicago – and drawing heavily on films that depicted that time – with Ui and his […]
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SMH Joyce Morgan March 28, 2018 ★★★★½ We get the leaders we deserve. So when politicians are bent, businessmen venal and low-life criminals murderous, the conditions are ripe for the rise of the lowest life of all. Hugo Weaving rages as the chilling despot Arturo Ui. Photo: Daniel Boud Exiled German playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote his […]
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Daily Review Rozanna Lilley March 28, 2018 4.5 / 5 stars Bertolt Brecht called The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui a ‘parable play’ or Parabelstück. It was written in 1941 when he was in exile from Germany. Ui allegorises Hitler’s rise to power, recasting him as a grasping 1930s Chicago gangster, wreaking bloody havoc on the cauliflower trade as he establishes […]
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Stage Noise Diana Simmonds March 28, 2018 THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI, Sydney Theatre Company at the Roslyn Packer Theatre, 21 March-28 April 2018. Photography by Daniel Boud On opening night of STC’s latest blockbuster, a grinch snippily remarked: “Bertolt Brecht would be spinning in his grave…” How true: spinning with frustration that he couldn’t be part of theatre […]
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Audrey Journal Jason Blake March 28, 2018 “WEAVING DAZZLES AS UI” Audrey review: A new translation of a Brecht masterpiece draws dark parallels between the rise of fascism in Europe and the Australia of today. Category:Theatre Show:The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Company:Sydney Theatre Company Where:Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay, Sydney When:21 Mar – 28 […]
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Time Out Sydney Ben Neutze March 28, 2018 * * * * * Hugo Weaving flexes his power in Sydney Theatre Company’s take on Brecht’s classic There’s been plenty written recently about the value of satire in effecting political change, asking whether the form has lost its bite. One question seems to hang above it […]
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