Best known for his play Ubu Roi ( 1896 ), which is often cited as a forerunner to the surrealist theatre of the 1920s and 1930s, Jarry wrote in a variety of genres and styles.

Sometimes grotesque or misunderstood ( e. g. the opening line in his play Ubu Roi, " Merdre!

In Jarry's later work Ubu Roi, Père Heb would develop into Ubu, one of the most monstrous and astonishing characters in French literature.

Père Ubu ( later: Ubu Roi ), from a drawing by Alfred Jarry

The spring of 1896 saw the publication, in Paul Fort's review Le Livre d ' art, of Jarry's 5-act play Ubu Roi — the rewritten and expanded Les Polonais of his school days.

With Franc-Nohain and Claude Terrasse, he co-founded the Théatre des Pantins, which in 1898 was the site of marionette performances of Ubu Roi.

* Ubu the King ( Ubu Roi )

* Ubu Roi ou Les Polonais at athena. unige. ch

* Ubu Roi, a comic-absurdist play by Alfred Jarry, contains numerous references to coprophagy / scatology.

* December 10 – The premiere of Alfred Jarry's absurdist play Ubu Roi in Paris causes a near-riot.

Some of his greatest successes include opening his own symbolist theatre, producing the first staging of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi ( 1896 ), and introducing French theatregoers to playwrights such as Ibsen and Strindberg.

In 2010 they performed an adaptation of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, called " Ubu " at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe under the name " Awful Pie Theatre.

* Ubu, the enigmatic central figure of a series of French plays by Alfred Jarry, including Ubu Roi, and subsequent plays Ubu Cocu ( Ubu Cuckolded ) and Ubu Enchaîné ( Ubu Enchained )

Ubu Roi ( Ubu the King ) is a play by Alfred Jarry, premiered in 1896.

This, one of many plays created around the character of Père Ubu ( or Hébé, as he was known at the time ), is long lost, so the true and complete authorship of Ubu Roi can never be known.

On opening night ( 10 December 1896 ), with traditionalists and the avant-garde in the audience, King Ubu ( played by Firmin Gémier ) stepped forward and intoned the opening word, " Merdre!

In the 20th century, other operas created by Polish composers included King Roger by Karol Szymanowski and Ubu Rex by Krzysztof Penderecki.

In 1953 he and his partner, poet Robert Duncan, along with painter Harry Jacobus, started the King Ubu Gallery, an important alternative space for art, poetry, and music.

Translated by David Ball as Ubu the King.

The group is named after Père Ubu (" father Ubu "), the protagonist of Ubu Roi (" Ubu, the King "), a play by French writer Alfred Jarry.

Hedrick, Deborah Remington, Hayward King, David Simpson, John Allen Ryan and Jack Spicer founded the Six Gallery at 3119 Fillmore St in San Francisco, on the location of the King Ubu Gallery, which had been run by Jess and Robert Duncan.

In 1952, in San Francisco, Jess, with Duncan and painter Harry Jacobus, opened the King Ubu Gallery, which became an important venue for alternative art and which remained so when, in 1954, poet Jack Spicer reopened the space as the Six Gallery.

In the early 1960s, with the arrival of director Jan Grossman, set designer Libor Fára and a stage hand and later dramaturg and playwright Václav Havel, the Theatre on the Balustrade became the centre of the Czech form of the absurd theatre ( V. Havel: The Garden Party, Memorandum, Alfred Jarry: King Ubu, Franz Kafka: Process ).

Clayton has mentioned Edgard Varèse, the Hanatarashi, King Tubby, Pere Ubu, Steely & Clevie, Gregory Whitehead, Timbaland, Mannie Fresh, DJ Scud and Wiley as impacting his creative work.

* 1963: Ubu King

* Ubu and the Truth Commission ( 1997 ), by Jane Taylor and William Kentridge.

Attended Brush High School ( Class of 1990 ), drummer in rock band Pere Ubu.

Unbiunium ( Ubu ), which could be considered a group 3 element if preceded by lanthanum and actinium, might be synthesized in the near future, it being only three spaces away from the current heaviest element known, ununoctium.

If lanthanum and actinium are considered group 3 elements, then element 121, unbiunium ( Ubu ), should be the fifth group 3 element.

He was one of the founding members of the short-lived protopunkers Rocket From The Tombs ( 1974 – 1975 ), where he went by the name of Crocus Behemoth, and of punk group Pere Ubu ( 1975 – present, intermittently ).

* David Thomas ( musician ) ( born 1953 ), American singer, songwriter, and musician, member of group Pere Ubu

Models ' early style was a spiky, distinctive blend of New Wave, glam rock, dub and pop: which included Kelly's strangled singing voice, Duffield's virtuoso synthesiser performances ( he used the EMS Synthi AKS, as used by Pere Ubu on their Dub Housing ), and the band's cryptic, slightly gruesome, lyrics ( e. g. " Hans Stand: A War Record " from Alphabravocharliedeltaechofoxtrotgolf ), which were mostly written or co-written by Kelly.

It was followed by Ubu Cocu ( Ubu Cuckolded ) and Ubu Enchaîné ( Ubu Enchained ), neither of which was performed during Jarry's 34-year life.

The play having been put on prematurely, and with more enthusiasm than anything else, Ubu hasn't had time to get his real mask ( which is very inconvenient to wear anyway ), and the other characters will be fitted out, like him, somewhat approximately.

Ubu Roi was the basis for Jan Lenica's animated film Ubu et la grande gidouille ( 1976 ) and was later adapted into Jane Taylor's " Ubu and the Truth Commission " ( 1998 ), a play critical of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission formed in response to the atrocities committed during Apartheid.

Ubu Roi has been translated most recently by David Ball in the Norton Anthology of Drama ( 2010 ), and performed at the University of Virginia the same year ; and by Sherry CM Lindquist, an adaptation of whose version was performed in Chicago, at The Public Theater in New York, at the International Festival Of Puppet Theater and at the Edison Theater, St. Louis, Missouri, by Hystopolis Productions, Chicago, from 1996 to ' 97.

Ubu Rois savage humor and monstrous absurdity, unlike anything thus far performed in French theater, seemed unlikely to ever actually be performed on stage.

" The beginnings of the original Ubu ," wrote Taylor, " have attained the status of legend within French theatre culture.

The show, put on by puppeteer and filmmaker Demian, was an adaptation of Ubu on the Hill, an 1888 play by Alfred Jarry.

" From the 19th century he included the Walloon play Tati l ' Pèriquî by E. Remouchamps and the avant-garde ' Ubu roi ' by A. Jarry.

it would be superfluous, aside from a certain absurdity in an author's speaking of his own play, for me to come here and preface with a few words this presentation of Ubu Roi, after such famous critics have cared to discuss it — among whom I must thank, and with these few all the others, M. M.

It seemed very important if we were to be quite like puppets — Ubu Roi is a play that was never written for puppets, but for actors pretending to be puppets, which is not the same thing — for us to have carnival music, and the orchestral parts have been allotted to various brasses, gongs and speaking-trumpet horns that we haven't had time to collect.

This adaptation by David Thomas of Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi was accompanied by animations by the Brothers Quay.