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| December 10, 1896 |
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| Alfred Jarry (1873 - 1907) |
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Jarry, Ubu Roi, Riot
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| by Steve King |
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On this day in 1896, Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, opened and closed in Paris. The play caused a near-riot in the audience, and a tempest in the press over the next days; it is now regarded as a landmark moment in the history of modern theater, or the absurdist branch of it. Biographically the play was conventional enough: Pa Ubu was based upon Jarry's high school mathematics teacher, the archetypal classroom tyrant. In Jarry's caricature, Ubu became a grotesquely fat megalomaniac, his symbol for all that was pushy and piggy about the bourgeoisie. The set, costumes and acting style took this further, becoming a slap not just at bourgeois values but at the well-made play ... FULL STORY »
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