A portrait of the French playwright and legendary bohemian Alfred Jarry, with his long dark hair and manicured goatee that evokes The Three Musketeers, appears alongside family photos in Linda Klieger ...

Ubu Roi is an avant-garde foray into the nature of greed and power. Ubu plots with his wife and fellow conspirators to kill the King of Poland, the broad satire that proceeds to unfold shows all the ...

Alfred Jarry’s 1896 absurd and grotesque “Ubu Roi” should be the perfect play for our current political moment. After all, it involves an impulsive vulgarian who, while utterly unacquainted with ...

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 ...

Talk about nostalgia! Ubu Roi, which takes bows at Space 55 Theatre, was first produced in 1896. Championed by theater fans as the play that launched the absurdist tradition, Ubu Roi (King Ubu) was ...

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 ...

If you're Declan Donnellan working with a French cast for this new Cheek by Jowl production of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, you keep the cast down to six actors. You also let designer Nick Ormerod create ...

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Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Were we prepared for the first sound queue of tonight's cultured night of theater?