There’s still time to catch Arizona Western College Theatre’s latest production, “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui”! Tonight at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m., AWC students, staff and
The show opens with a Ghost Light center stage. As most shows of a Brechtian nature go, characters of nondescript fashion layout the evening events in the manner of Prologue. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, or as it is subtitled “The Parable Play,” tells the story of the rise of Arturo Ui a fictional Chicago Mobster as he ruthlessly tries to control the Chicago vegetable market despite opposition. A political satire based on Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Nazi Germany prior to the events of World War II.