In a crackling, revelatory production of “Ubu Roi,” Hystopolis Puppet Theater has returned this legendary avant-garde drama to its roots.Alfred Jarry’s play, a keystone of surrealistic art ...

Alfred Jarry's infamous play Ubu Roi premiered in Paris in 1896, when women still hid their heels and men wore white tie to dinner. The absurd, nihilistic and expletive-filled work shocked ...

In sifting Esslin’s text, three significant plays emerge as historic steps in the development of absurd theater. The first was Ubu Roi, performed in Paris in 1896, and written by Alfred Jarry, a ...

Mark Roberts, as Father Ubu, reminisces about former glory during a demonstration of Alfred Jarry's play 'Ubu Roi', Wednesday, Jan. 9, in Spring Street Studios in Houston. The play opens Feb. 18 ...

Every drama student knows the story of "Ubu Roi." The absurdist play caused a sensation -- and nearly a riot -- when it opened in Paris in December 1896: The first word of dialogue was a vulgar ...

Until 20 April at the Barbican’s Silk Street Theatre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS with start times of 14.30 and 19.30. Tickets (£21-26): 020 7638 8891 or click here . Londonist received a ...

You don't shock many people anymore saying "s-" onstage, even when spoken by a greedy Fat Bastard of an antihero in a satiric play savaging modern bourgeois society and religion. But the Parisian ...

Cheek By Jowl's production of Ubu Roi will be streamed live via the Telegraph website at 7pm on Sunday 26th July. It is filmed in the Gerald W Lynch Theater as part of the 2015 Lincoln Center ...

BATH Studio Theatre of Bath will hold auditions for its fall production of “Ubu Roi” from 1-5 p.m. Sunday, August 2, and at 6-9 p.m. Monday, August 3, at the Patten Free Library in Bath.

More than 100 years since it first came to the stage and almost caused a riot, Alfred Jarry's savage and ridiculous comedy is still laugh-out-loud funny and in Cheek By Jowl's accomplished hands ...