The University of Findlay’s theatre program will present “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 16, through Saturday, April 19, and at 6 p.m. Sunday, April 20, in the John and Hester Powell Grimm Theatre, located in the Frank J. Egner Center for the Performing Arts.

Tickets are $5 for general admission, $3 for students and senior citizens and free to UF faculty, staff and students. You may reserve tickets by calling the UF Box Office at 419-434-5335.

“The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” was written by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht in 1941. The play chronicles the rise of Arturo Ui, a fictional ’30s Chicago mobster, and his attempts to control the cauliflower racket by ruthlessly disposing of the opposition.

“Arturo Ui” is consciously a highly satirical allegory of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany, whose rise Brecht represented in parallel to that of Ui. All the characters and groups in the play had direct counterparts in real life. The piece was not translated into English until 1961, and this translation by Andy de la Tour premiered in London in 2002.