Jabu
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 26, 2005
Closed Apr 9, 2005
Opened Feb 26, 2005
Closed Apr 9, 2005
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Running Time:
2hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Extended thru April 9th!
The Flea Theater presents Elizabeth Swados' Jabu, a new musical comedy that combines the French Absurdist classic play Ubu Roi with the wild life of young playwright Alfred Jarry. Written, directed, and composed by Swados and starring The Bats, the resident acting company of The Flea. In Jabu, scatological Pa Ubu and his bumbling cronies murder the King and throw the country into mindless chaos. This is juxtaposed against the colorful life of Ubu playwright Alfred Jarry, a vibrant young man determined to be his own comic star. While dimwitted Pa Ubu tries to maintain his wealth and position, Jarry befriends such luminaries of the day as Henry Rousseau and Madame de Rachilde while attempting to get famed director/producer Lugne Poe to produce his play about Ubu. JABU is staged using elements of vaudeville, circus, puppetry, clowning, and musical theater mixed with slides and video. It features a cast of eighteen.
Group sales number (15+): 212-226-0051 ext. 109
Appropriate for ages: 15 and up
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Elizabeth Swados's concerted attempts to be more pretentious than thou have been somewhat curtailed since Joseph Papp championed her back in the day. Now, however, she has returned and is at it again. The results may excite those who share her retrograde notions of the avant-garde but will probably bore the baggy pants off everybody else.
Her new show was developed at the Alley Theatre and is now being presented by the resident Bat company at Jim Simpson's Flea Theater. It's a musical biography of the seminal French absurdist Alfred Jarry, with generous helpings of his iconoclastic Ubu Roi thrown in for good measure. Swados calls the insistent mess Jabu, a conflation of Jarry and Ubu. Ma[...]