Ubu Roi (Cutting Ball Translation) - Softcover

Jarry, Alfred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0985658436 ISBN 13: 9780985658434

Publisher: EXIT PRESS, 2014

Synopsis

A new translation by Rob Melrose of the classic play Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry. Ubu Roi has divided audiences into passionate, dissenting camps since its 1896 premiere in Paris, an event that changed theater forever. With the first word of the play the audience erupted in pandemonium. People stormed the exits as fist fights broke out. Ubu was a scatological mockery that challenged assumptions about good taste and good behavior, a performance that questioned the very nature of theater and divided the audience between those who came expecting the ordinary and those who came hoping for the extraordinary. Now Ubu is seen as the precursor of the theatre of the absurd and playwrights like Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet. Rob Melrose’s new translation brings out the Shakespearean echoes of Ubu while using words from classic American comedy to get the Punch and Judy feel.

About this title

About the Author:

Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) was a French writer of plays, novels, and poetry. His most well-known work, the play Ubu Roi (1896), was first performed in 1896 at the Theatre de l’Oeuvre. Jarry died at the early age of 34 in 1907.

Review:

“What more is possible? After us, the Savage God.”
- W.B. Yeats

About this edition

• Publisher: EXIT PRESS
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0985658436
• ISBN 13: 9780985658434
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96