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La résistible ascension d’Arturo Ui at Drayton Arms Theatre
Dates: 02/07/2026- 04/07/2026
📍 Theatre: Drayton Arms Theatre
Exchange Theatre & Le Workshop
Drayton Arms Pub & Theatre, 153 Old Brompton Road, London, SW5 0 LJ
London,
Tickets: £16.00 Standard, £12.00 Concession
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d'après Bertolt Brecht
Editée et mise en scène par David Furlong
Brecht, le dramaturge allemand le plus populaire, transpose les mécanismes de l’ascension d’Hitler dans le Chicago des années 1930 avec le trust du chou-fleur en crise. D’Al Capone à Méloni, du fascisme à la pègre, les procédés sont les mêmes : intimidation, chantage, détournement d’argent, menace, meurtre, jusqu'au cours grotesque de diction pour mieux haranguer les foules.
"Le ventre est encore fécond" - Brecht
Plus de soixante ans après la mort du dramaturge, Arturo Ui traverse l’Histoire et parle toujours au présent. Notre troupe s’en empare avec insolence et des personnages tellement haut en couleurs qu’ils touchent à tous les extrêmes ! Ceux de la fiction déjantée, bien sur… Par la troupe des Nouveaux Barbares (2024) et Notre Racine (2025)
Avec Baptiste Boninségna, Gladys De Guerines, Jeanne Delévaque, Laurent Doucet, Pierre Dubs, Delphine Giret, Camille Lehujeur, Marion Neron, Marion Pelletant, Constance Rouge
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
IN FRENCH after Bertolt Brecht
Edited and directed by David Furlong
Brecht, the most popular German playwright, transposes the mechanisms of Hitler’s rise to power into 1930s Chicago, with a cauliflower trust in crisis. From Al Capone to Meloni, from fascism to organized crime, the methods are the same: intimidation, blackmail, embezzlement, threats, murder—right up to the grotesque diction lessons designed to better harangue the crowds. “The womb is still fertile” - Brecht
More than sixty years after the playwright’s death, Arturo Ui continues to move through history and still speaks to the present day. Our company takes it on with irreverence, and with characters so vividly drawn that they push every limit—those of wild, off-the-wall fiction, of course…
By the company behind Les Nouveaux Barbares (2024) and Notre Racine (2025).
With Baptiste Boninségna, Gladys De Guerines, Jeanne Delévaque, Laurent Doucet, Pierre Dubs, Delphine Giret, Camille Lehujeur, Marion Neron, Marion Pelletant, Constance Rouge
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About the Theatre
The Drayton Arms was originally built in 1860 and then rebuilt to its current design in 1891.
Originally a function room the first theatrical use of the space was just after the war as a rehearsal room for many of the actors from the newly formed BBC TV who lived locally.
In 1985 The upstairs room at the Drayton Arms was then being used as a rehearsal studio for Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Hilary Wood had recently been appointed head of acting and at her suggestion it was decided to turn the space into a theatre to give the students their own performance space in central London.
In the autumn of that year the studio was converted into a theatre with the space being designed by Hilary and Newton Jones the technical director of the Academy.
The Drayton Studio - as it was then - continued in use for the next twenty years, with twelve public performances running each year. Many of the students who presented their work there have gone on to real achievement in Theatre, Film and Television.
The Theatre was used as a rehearsal space on and off for a few years with couple of public performances for charity in 2009.
In late 2010 it was decided to get the theatre back up and running on a more permanent basis. Work was undertaken to upgrade the space and then in April 2011 the theatre licence was granted and the Drayton Arms Theatre was reopened as a professional fringe venue.
From Shakespeare to new plays, musicals to improv, classics to comedy, we are always showing something new.
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Where is Drayton Arms Theatre located?
Drayton Arms Theatre is at Drayton Arms Pub & Theatre, 153 Old Brompton Road, London, SW5 0 LJ, London.
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