Alfred Jarry‘s absurdist play Ubu Roi takes more than a few irreverent lashes at Poland ... The teenage writer composed and distributed absurd short stories with the latter as the protagonist, one of ...

The festival promises to be as thorough and wide-ranging an introduction to absurdism as local audiences are apt to ...

No official action will be taken against the Quincy House production of Ubu Roi, scheduled for May 6-9, despite two anonymous letters charging that the play is "obscene and indecent." The letters ...

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 ...

Ubu: King of the Isle of Wight will open at the newly launched Department in Ryde on Friday, March 21, at 8pm. The play is a ...