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The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui
by Dario Fo
(Borderline Theatre Company)
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BIOGRAPHY
My first professional gig and it could well have been a very short career. Annie Ross, another member of the acting company who was sweet enough to take me under her wing confided many years later that the director Morag Fullerton had been very close to giving me the sack. I suspect in the early days of rehearsal I was trying awfully hard and imbuing the handful of very minor roles allotted me with a significance they really didn't possess. It makes me blush to think. Annie persuaded her to be patient and I narrowly avoided a humiliation from which it would have been hard to recover.
REVIEWS - August 1982
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, in which the rise of Chicago gangster Arturo Ui, brilliantly conveyed by Peter Jonfield, parallels with biting irony and wit the rise of Hitler in Germany. This is emphasized by news flashes at intervals, informing of events in Germany analogous to those of the play. The most impressive aspect of the production, directed by Morag Fullerton, is the economic yet dynamic way it is staged, adding to the performance a strong visual dimension.THE SCOTSMAN
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Credits
Peter Jonfield
Arturo UiFreddie Boardley
Ernesto RomaIan Burns
Butcher, GunmanJuliet Cadzow
O'Casey/ Betty DullfeetAlastair Cording
Bowl/ ShortyEdmund Fazlon
Sheet/ Guiseppe/ GivolaJames Gibb
Emanuele GiriIain Glen
Young Dogsborough, Ragg, SmithPeter Harding
ClarkPhil McCall
Old Dogsborough/ The Judge/ DullfeetAnn Louise Ross
The Barker/ DockdaisyMorag Fullarton
DirectorNeil Murray
DesignerAlan J. Wands
Lighting DesignerCaroline Laing
ChoreographyAlan J. Wands
Production Manager
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, parallels with biting irony and wit the rise of Hitler in Germany.
