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.

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.

Pere Ubu has a song entitled " Caligari's Mirror ".

This fact along with other considerations led directly into the official reformation of Pere Ubu in 1987, and the group has remained active through the present day.

Most recently he has alternated recording and performances primarily between Pere Ubu, David Thomas and Two Pale Boys, and the reunited Rocket from the Tombs.

While Ubu may be relentless in his political aspirations, and brutal in his personal relations, he apparently has no measurable effect upon those who inhabit the farcical world which he creates around himself.

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.

The teenage-wasteland theme of the song has nothing to do with the Nazi use of " final solution ": Indeed, Pere Ubu has consistently denounced Nazism and neo-Nazi movements, and praised resistance to Nazism and rescues of Jews in WWII.

Robert Wheeler has played synthesizer and theremin with Pere Ubu since 1994.

*" Pere Ubu is not now nor has it ever been a viable commercial venture.

Their music, hard to classify, has been described as " what you might expect if you managed to merge Pere Ubu and Pixies with a touch of Kraftwerk ".

Unbiunium (), also known as eka-actinium or element 121, is the temporary name of a hypothetical chemical element in the periodic table that has the temporary symbol Ubu and has the atomic number 121.

* Bernd Alois Zimmermann at the Avant Garde Project has FLAC files made from high-quality LP transcriptions of Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu and the Vocal Symphony from Die Soldaten available for free download.

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.

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.

Mainly we wanted to see Ubu incarnate in the versatile talent of M. Gémier, and tonight and tomorrow night are the only two performances that M. Ginisty and his production of Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam have been free to relinquish to us.

While Pere Ubu have never been widely popular — usually categorized as " underground rock "— they have a devoted following and are an influential and critically acclaimed band.

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.

Satie wrote his absurdist play some 15 years after Jarry's first Ubu play had been premiered in Paris.

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.

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

Ubu Roi was later to become the most cherished and first example of surrealism in theatre ( which would develop into the Theatre of the Absurd ).

A number of musical projects, most notably by Quinlan, Brill, Little and Bloch, took the funk idea back to its roots as a musical style ( see George Clinton, James Brown and Robert Wyatt ) that was blended with elements of Devo and Pere Ubu that had also come out of northern Ohio.

He did, however, get the chance to design posters for student concerts at the college, most notably for Pere Ubu, supported by The Human League.

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.

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.

" 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.