In 2010 Pere Ubu played a series of theatrical shows in the UK including a set at the Classic Grand in Glasgow's Jamaica Street.

He then formed a band including ex-members of Pere Ubu and Captain Beefheart's Magic Band called The Lost Soul Crusaders ( named after a fictional group in an episode of the detective series Columbo whose lead singer was played by one of Riley's heroes, Johnny Cash ) but the record company funding the band went bust before any material could be recorded.

" The closing tag for Radioactive Fishtank, producers of Cinemax late night series Femme Fatales, depicts a fish in an aquarium set to an ominous voice saying " Kill, Ubu, kill!

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

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

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.

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

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

* 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

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

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.

Experimental theatre is a general term for various movements in Western theatre that began in the late 19th century with Alfred Jarry and his Ubu plays as a rejection of both the age in particular and, in general, the dominant ways of writing and producing plays.

* Alfred Jarry shocked Paris in 1896 with the first of his absurdistic Ubu plays: Ubu Roi.

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

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!

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

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.

In Ubu and the Truth Commission, by Jane Taylor, viii-xv.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The composer Krzysztof Penderecki wrote regularly for the musical saw, including several obbligato parts in his comic opera Ubu Rex, and Canadian composer Robert Minden has written extensively for the musical saw.

The tape featured a number of then up-and-coming bands, including Aztec Camera, Orange Juice, Linx and Scritti Politti, as well as a number of more established artists such as Robert Wyatt, Pere Ubu, Buzzcocks and Ian Dury.

In the late 1950s, " underground film " began to be used to describe early independent film makers operating first in San Francisco, California and New York City, New York, and soon in other cities around the world as well, including the London Film-Makers ' Co-op in Britain and Ubu Films in Sydney, Australia.

Best known for his work with English avant-rock group Henry Cow, Cutler was also a member and drummer of a number of other bands, including Art Bears, News from Babel, Pere Ubu and ( briefly ) Gong / Mothergong.

" Thomas credits Ghoulardi for influencing the " otherness " of the Cleveland / Akron bands of the mid-1970s and early-1980s, including the Electric Eels, and The Mirrors, the Cramps, and Thomas's own groups, Pere Ubu and Rocket From The Tombs, declaring: " We were the Ghoulardi kids.