The Ubu Plays

Author: Alfred Jarry

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Description

Three plays following the adventures of Pa and Ma Ubu in their absurd world. King Ubu, the best known of the three, mirrors Macbeth as Ubu ousts the King, becomes a tyrant and is finally killed.

This volume also includes Cuckold Ubu and Slave Ubu.
Translated by Kenneth McLeish.

Provoking riots at its opening in 1896, Ubu is acclaimed as the touchstone for the Dada and Surrealist movements, the Theatre of the Absurd, and much of the rest of experimental theatre in the 20th century.
18M or F (or puppets)