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 ...
French playwright Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" caused a riot when it premiered in Paris in 1896 - as startling for its complete break with stage naturalism as for beginning the play with a scatalogical ...
Lights rise on a grotesque couple perched on matching commodes. Pa Ubu farts lustily; his long-suffering wife suggests killing the king to improve their station. Pa mulls it over, farts again, and ...
Cécile Leterme, left, as Queen Rosamonde and Sylvain Levitte as Bougrelas in ‘Ubi Roi.’ Stephanie Berger By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...
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 ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. For well over one hundred years avant-garde writer Alfred Jarry has set the ...
Cabbie and author of Hack: Stories From a Chicago Cab, still flags: Nelson Algren’s books: Nelson Algren introduced me to Chicago years before I ever got here. Some older, more with-it friend gave me ...