Alfred Jarry‘s absurdist play Ubu Roi takes more than a few irreverent lashes at Poland – yet judging by the multitude of Polish adaptations, Poles harbour no resentment. Staged for the first time in ...

The room, and the works within, are a tribute to Kentridge’s many projects around the Ubu Roi, the 19th-century play by Alfred Jarry that parodies several Shakespeare works, including Macbeth ...

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 ...