The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Modern Plays) by Bertolt Brecht

Author:Bertolt Brecht
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781472566799
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
Published: 2013-11-07T16:00:00+00:00

Jim Crocket

Yes.

Why, what’s going on?

Gangster

Your warehouse is on fire.

Crocket dashes out. Some follow. Others go to the window.

Roma

Stop! Hold everything! Nobody leaves the room!

(To First Bodyguard.)

It’s

Arson, right?

Gangster Sure, what else? They found some cans

Of kerosene nearby.

Third Grocer I saw some people

Walking out of here with cans.

Roma (in a rage) Whaddya mean?

Are you trying to say we did it?

(Digging a gun into Third Grocer’s rib.)

Who

Did you say was carrying cans through here?

Third Grocer (terrified)

They . . . they looked like truck drivers to me.

Roma See?

The Chief was right. It’s them truck drivers again.

It’s all the fault of truck drivers, my friend.

Givola

The very man who told us here a while ago

That all was hunky-dory in the groceries

Can see his warehouse going up in flames.

Turned into ash and rubble. Don’t you see the

Writing on the wall? Have you gone blind? Unite,

You guys. And now! The hour is late!

Ui (roars)

This town has gone too far! First it was murder,

Now comes arson. Wake up, you grocers! Make no error:

You join us now. If not, the only way is terror.

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