... Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 The Alfred Jarry Theater: A Portfolio of Photographs In 1926 Artaud founded the Alfred Jarry Theater in collaboration with Roger Vitrac and Robert Aron. The group published a booklet, The Alfred Jarry Theater and Public Hostility...

... ZELENAK ew dramatic works have attained turds for meat at a state dinner to save Fthe iconographic status of Alfred money. He is an Aristophanic creation, Jarry’s Ubu roi. Its original two...

... Proust or Joyce. postmodern equivalent of Jarry’s modern Ubu Roi. Both Rather, it smacks as the peculiar symptom afflicting attempt a radical break with those theatrical conventions cultures that have lost all sense of history: a need to think endorsed by their contemporaries, both are only...

... and Puppet Theatre (two volumes) . New York: Routledge, 1988 . Jarry , Alfred Ubu sur la Butte. In Tout Ubu . Paris: Livre de Poche, 1962 . Porter , Burt The Same Boat: The Passion of Chico Mendes . Glover, Vermont: Bread and Puppet Theater, 1989 . Schumann , Peter “Bread...

... design clearly invokes Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi—the French surrealist playwright was one of Gombrowicz’s favorite authors and one of the few he acknowledged as an influence. Photo: Agence de Presse Bernand, archives of Rita Gombrowicz Alf Sjöberg’s Swedish premiere of The Marriage, designed by Acke...

... Blanchette 65, 66, 69 Alfred Jarry: Nihilism and the Theater of the Absurd by Maurice Marc LaBelle, New York University Press, New York, 1980 (cloth) $15.00. Alan Cook 60 Black Drama of the Federal Theater Era by E. Quita-Craig, University of Luigi Ciminaghi 83-86 Massachusetts Press...

... Blanchette 65, 66, 69 Alfred Jarry: Nihilism and the Theater of the Absurd by Maurice Marc LaBelle, New York University Press, New York, 1980 (cloth) $15.00. Alan Cook 60 Black Drama of the Federal Theater Era by E. Quita-Craig, University of Luigi Ciminaghi 83-86 Massachusetts Press...

..., dictatorships—found their mirrors especially in avant-garde stage scandals, all of which destabilized the moral certainties of melodrama. Alfred Jarry’s profane and grotesque tyrant Ubu—a characterization of the unrestrained id—con- ducts mass executions as if playing a children’s game. Synge’s outspun...

... from time to time.  — Alfred Jarry The majority is never right. Never I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that one free and intelligent man cannot help rebelling against. Who are these people that make up the biggest portion of the population — the intelligent...

... It is strange to think that this play, highly moralistic, contrary to what written almost at the same time as certain critics have stated. The plot: Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry, did not have the punishments sent by God to man. any influence whatsoever on its time. The Devil is the one who carries...

... Envelope — part farce, part commedia, and part “tragi-comedy” — offers an unrelentingly grotesque, veiled but not concealed, satire of Mobutu, with apocalyp- tic inflections of Alfred Jarry’s King Ubu and with the nuanced, incisive moral out- rage of Molière — Mujomba’s favorite dramatist. Borrowing...

... to Strindberg’s history play Mas- ter OZoJ this miniature attack on organized religion and its pieties takes on a dark and menacing tone in its later decontextualized form. It is often forgotten that a year before Alfred Jarry’s cursing, toilet-brush waving, murderous, slothful Ubu appeared...

.... Tzara and lonesco, (unlike, for example, Alfred Jarry or Apollinaire who wrote knowing precisely the meaning of every word they used) write precariously ("Dada is a game of Russian Roulette" said Tzara): they load their revolver-pens, give the cylinder a spin, and never quite know just when...

... The Last Judgment. The Great Beast. Alfred Jarry’s illustration for Cuesur Antichrist (1895). Copyright © 1999 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 1999 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. ...

... theaters searched desperately for an audience, the National Theater in Craiova enjoyed tremendous success with a version of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Rex (Ubu Roi ), in which Père and Mère Ubu were easily recog- nized as Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu.3 This production, directed by Silviu Purcărete, received...

... Pirandello, in his fragmentation of character, belongs in the latter. Jarry fits into both categories: he...

... Jarry qua Ubu did - whimsically, childishly - and that posterity will come to regard these two as similar figures who marked the collision of epochs with deadly serious “acts” that they never dropped. The literary manifestations of Muller’s “act” will be dusted off whenever his sort...

.... in; there he grew increas- ingly sensitive and isolated from the others, who often treated him harshly. (As Alfred Jarry did in his Ubu tales, Darger later exacted his schoolboy’s revenge by rendering his mates as unflattering characters in his imaginary chronicles.) Though he strove for piety...

...Susan Yankowitz Copyright © Theater 1998 1998 SUSANYANKOWITZ In 1969, the radical energy that had fueled the works of such visionary spirits as the Surrealists, Dadaists, Artaud, Jarry, Brecht, and many others, broke the mold of American psychological realism. From...

... relation to the history of the German stage as Jarry's Ubu Roi does to the French. And like the premiere of Ubu, the first performance of Kokoschka's play provoked a battle be- tween the rival factions of the audience, waged with umbrellas and reaching such a pitch...