Alexandre Pateau, Translator of “The Resistible Ascension of Arturo Ui” by Bertolt Brecht: “Arturo Ui Is Al Capone, Hitler, Donald Trump, Basically All the Tyrants of the World”

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Sherlock Holmes from the German language, this young translator offers a superbly playful new version of “The Resistible Ascension of Arturo Ui” by Bertolt Brecht. On Wednesday, the students of the Geneva Conservatory will offer a musical reading at the Théâtre du LoupThe Scoundrel Ball. In February 1941, Bertolt Brecht designed the treacherous embraces, the scabrous minuets, the blind fox trots. The author of Drum in the Night, of Baal, of L'Op…