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 )

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.

* 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

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

The later work of Ohio protopunk pioneers Pere Ubu is also commonly described as post-punk.

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

Pere Ubu is an experimental rock music group from Cleveland, Ohio.

Ohio is known for a wide variety of punk rock icons from Akron, Cleveland and Cincinnati, primarily ; these include The Dead Boys, Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, The Cramps, Rocket From The Tombs, Pere Ubu, Robert Quine, Rachel Sweet, Pagans, Devo and the Rubber City Rebels.

:" Pere Ubu is a big rock experience, often overwhelming in its power and intensity of dataflow.

Billy Bob Hargus wrote, however, that " The sound of the Rockets is much more ferocious than Ubu or the Dead Boys.

Ra's is also assisted by his devoted, musclebound servant Ubu.

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.

The Swedenborgian philosopher Mésès has excellently compared rudimentary creations with the most perfect, and embryonic beings with the most complete, in that the former lack all irregularities, protuberances and qualities, which leaves them in more or less spherical form, like the ovum and M. Ubu, while the latter have added so many personal details that they remain equally spherical, following the axiom that the most polished object is that which presents the greatest number of sharp corners.

That is why you are free to see in M. Ubu however many allusions you care to, or else a simple puppet — a schoolboy's caricature of one of his professors who personified for him all the ugliness in the world.

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.

The American experimental rock group Pere Ubu is named after the main character.

" City Hobgoblins ", a song by Manchester pop group The Fall, contains the Mark E Smith penned lyric " Ubu Roi is a home Hobgoblin.

He teams up with Jonah who is trying to collect a bounty on Ubu.

Pere Ubu is an experimental rock music group formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975.