Richard Michael Blaber1d ago
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/apr/03/resistible-rise-arturo-ui-mark-gatiss-placebo-interview-brecht-swan-theatre-stratford. "In rehearsals for the [RSC’s] upcoming production of Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, the cast have been exploring the uncanny parallels between the blackly comic melodrama & current events in #Britain & across the #Atlantic. 'It’s the same #rhetoric,' says Mark Gatiss, who stars as Arturo Ui. “You just give it 80 years. The [WW2] generation has died out, so it’s fertile ground again. The same bullshit works. It’s really frightening.'"
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The Guardian
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"The RSC’s team is letting the parable of the #play speak for itself. When you hear the text, Gatiss says, 'you go: I’ve heard that line before, haven’t I?’ The alarming prescience of the play fuelled the #RSC to move mountains to get the production staged within a year. 'We said: We should be doing it tomorrow, shouldn’t we?’ says Gatiss. It was a warning from #history. Now it’s the bloody #news.'"
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