Alfred Jarry‘s absurdist play Ubu Roi takes more than a few irreverent lashes at Poland – yet judging by ... The teenage writer composed and distributed absurd short stories with the latter as the ...

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 ...

Pere Ubu, a monster of stupidity, is incapable of the slightest intelligence. But his bestial force is manipulated by a diabolical creature: Mother Ubu... This adaptation of Alfred Jarry's work is ...