Swan theatre, Stratford-Upon-AvonGatiss is part Hitler, part Scrooge, part Trump in Seán Linnen’s circus-like production for the RSCBertolt Brecht’s comic grotesque parable for Hitler’s rise to power has been compared to Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, and there is something distinctly Chaplinesque in Mark Gatiss’s cartoon gangster. He is initially tragicomic as Arturo Ui, with his tramp-like clothin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:25PM on April 22, 2026