“Ubu Roi” may have been written in 1896, but make no mistake: It’s a punk play. This surreal satire about a malevolent couple that betrays, steals and kills for money and power is as ...
More than 100 years since it first came to the stage and almost caused a riot, Alfred Jarry’s savage and ridiculous comedy is still laugh-out-loud funny and in Cheek By Jowl's accomplished hands ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. When Alfred Jarry''s UBU ROI premiered in Paris on December 10, 1896, the audience ...
The French writer Alfred Jarry is chiefly remembered as the creator of Ubu roi (King Ubu). The play is a loose parody of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, presenting the characters of mother and father Ubu, who ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Alfred Jarry wrote the play in the late 1900s as a Symbolist parody informed by ...
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