by Bertolt Brecht
with Bill Wallis as Arturo Ui

Brecht's tragi-comic political polemic warned the world in 1938 against the criminality of Hitler, by portraying him as, literally, a cheap hoodlum from Brooklyn who exploits the cauliflower trade's depression by letting up protection rackets which ultimately gain him total power in Chicago and Cicero. But lest one think the play dated, Brecht later appended these final words to his Epilogue:
"This was the thing that nearly had us mastered;
Don't yet rejoice in his defeat, you men!
Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard,
The bitch that bore him is on heat again."

BBC Bristol

8.24-8.30*
During the Interval excerpts from Kurt Welll's Suite: The Threepenny Opera London Sinfonietta, conducted by David Atherton: record