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Caffeine's the key, says Matthew S. Cibula '88, as the crew of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui hammered the finishing touches on the play's set of crates and wooden boxes. Lying on the floor in front of the Loeb's Mainstage, Cibula tried to explain how one can manage to coordinate a mainstage play...
Although the cast and crew of Ui had been working on the play since the beginning of the semester, they were still scrambling Wednesday to perfect all the details before opening night. The three in charge of the play--the two producers and Director Shawn E. Hainsworth '88--have worked on many house plays before, but never on a mainstage production...
Written by modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht and an allegory for the rise of Nazism in Weimar Germany, this work marks not only the resistible rise of Arturo Ui but also the rise of a direction/production trio. The three have done several other productions together in the past, including last year's hit The 5th of July, are good friends and they even live in the same entry way of Leverett House. But all agree that the sheer logistics of a mainstage production require a different approach...
...FIRST COLLECTION should, Bedlam demonstrates a range of approaches and strengths. "An Encounter," a short tour de force composed entirely of questions (no dialogue), hangs together nicely, and "UI'Lyu, Ooo Ooo Ooo" actually goes a long way toward convincing the reader of the narrator's romantic attachment to "a kind of jellied ball floating off the ground...
...dozen finest actors in the English-speaking world. Like Guinness and (for a time) Brando. Plummer has been able to efface himself completely when immersing himself in a role: his Pizarro in The Royal Hunt of the Sun and his work in the title role of Arturo Ui can never be bettered...