A
very energetic and creative production juxtaposing between a boy’s observation
of a bourgeois dinner party and the Ubu Roi narrative. I’m not entirely clear
how much the play itself needed this addition but it certainly worked well
theatrically. The story itself covers Ubu’s taking power from King Wenceslas of
Poland, egged on by his wife. He becomes increasingly dictatorial, executing
all and sundry before his denouement, also revealing the treachery between him
and his wife. Jarry’s play of 1896, seems to capture the essence of the
dictator increasingly locked in his own world and detached from normal values
–the Amin figure.
The full text
is to be found here https://www.smashwords.com/books/download/144310/.../king-ubu.pdf.
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