Liverpool PlayhouseThe gangster Alberto Ui is a connoisseur of violence; just like his real-life counterpart, Adolf Hitler. Bertolt Brecht's play charts the rise to power of both. Fictional scenes are punctuated by historical facts that march in digital surtitles above the stage. Below them, the counterpoint story of Ui's growing grocery protection racket staccatos along to an intermittent jazz accompaniment (Nikola …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on October 8, 2011