After Sandy Nelson's blisteringly funny adaptation of Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion last week, the Sol Summer season of cut-down classics at Oran Mor continues with Marcus Roche's take on Alfred Jarry's Absurdist comedy, Ubu Roi.
After Sandy Nelson's blisteringly funny adaptation of Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion last week, the Sol Summer season of cut-down classics at Oran Mor continues with Marcus Roche's take on Alfred Jarry's Absurdist comedy, Ubu Roi.
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Alan Chadwick
Jarry isn't to everybody's taste. His scatological, two-fingered salute to the establishment caused a riot when it first premiered in Paris in 1896. And if you're not a fan of Absurdist theatre it's unlikely this is the show for you. Even if you are, you might well come away from this production, which Roche also directs, wishing, if anything, that it was more profane, more raucous, more visceral, and more squirmingly grotesque and angry than it actually is. Jarry famously opened the play with the bastardised line "merdre!" Here, Roche opts for "clunt".
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