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 )

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* 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

* Ubu Roi ( King Ubu ), a French play by Alfred Jarry, along with subsequent plays Ubu Cocu ( Ubu Cuckolded ) and Ubu Enchaîné ( Ubu Enchained ) featured " Ubu " as the main character

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.

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

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His interest in film was sparked by his meeting with fellow students, including Phillip Noyce and the future members of the Sydney filmmaking collective Ubu Films.

Other post-punk bands influenced by Beefheart include Gang of Four, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Pere Ubu, Babe the Blue Ox and Mark E. Smith of The Fall.

Levene had by then largely abandoned guitar in favour of synthesiser, picking up a technique that was unique, although perhaps owing a debt to Allen Ravenstine of Pere Ubu.

Ubu roi was translated into Walloon by André Blavier, an important pataphysician of Verviers, and friend of Queneau, for the new and important Puppet theater of Liège of Jacques Ancion.

He was replaced by Tim Wright, previously of the Cleveland 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.

Alfred Jarry's Subversive Poetics in the Almanachs du Père Ubu.

One of the most significant common precursors is Alfred Jarry whose wild, irreverent, and lascivious Ubu plays scandalized Paris in the 1890s.

* 1977: Ubu aux Bouffes after Alfred Jarry, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord

There were many 19th century examples of attacks on Enlightenment concepts, parody, and playfulness in literature, including Lord Byron's satire, especially Don Juan ; Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus ; Alfred Jarry's ribald Ubu parodies and his invention of ' Pataphysics ; Lewis Carroll's playful experiments with signification ; the work of Isidore Ducasse, Arthur Rimbaud, Oscar Wilde.

While his schoolmates lost interest in the Ubu legends when they left school, Jarry continued adding to and reworking the material for the rest of his short life.

Ubu Roi follows and explores his political, martial and felonious exploits, offering parodic adaptations of situations and plot-lines from Shakespearean drama, including Macbeth, Hamlet and Richard III: like Macbeth, Ubu — on the urging of his wife — murders the king who helped him and usurps his throne, and is in turn defeated and killed by his son ; Jarry also adapts the ghost of the dead king and Fortinbras's revolt from Hamlet, Buckingham's refusal of reward for assisting a usurpation from Richard III and The Winter's Tale's bear.

By the time Jarry wanted Ubu Roi published and staged, the Morins had lost their interest in schoolboy japes, and Henri gave Jarry permission to do whatever he wanted with them.

After further rioting during the first ( and final ) performance, Ubu Roi was outlawed from the stage, and Jarry moved it to a puppet theatre.