Ubu Roi

A scandal and an outrage when it premiered in Paris in 1896, Alfred Jarry’s UBU ROI is an outlandish parody of Shakespeare’s MACBETH and has remained a staple of modern theater for over a century. Developed from a schoolboy farce and beginning with a four-letter word, UBU ROI defies all the traditions of stage and ridicules the established values of bourgeois society.