Alfred Jarry‘s absurdist play Ubu Roi takes more than a few irreverent lashes at Poland – yet judging by the multitude of Polish adaptations, Poles harbour no resentment. Staged for the first time in ...

Jarry said Ubu Roi was about his old schoolmaster, whom he hated, and whom he and other pupils would call Ubu and poke fun at, but the more Nick and I read the play, the more it struck us that it ...

With scenes at times current and at others medieval, dramatic or overloaded with useless gestures, Jarry, Ubú Patagónico is a dialogue with “Ubú Rey”, by Alfred Jarry, and his decalogue ...