Written by Alfred Jarry
Translated by Barbara Wright
Directed by Jon Ferguson
Featuring: George Dornbach, Laura Ricci, Nina Ricci, Craig Gimmel, Kyle Munshower, Teri Schafer, Sarah Catcher, Lindsay Janke, Sophia Pellitzer, Alyssa Terry, Beth Cassidy, Kevin Duong, Nico Morasco, Jenny Sampica
October 16, 2014 - October 25, 2014
Colman Black Box Theater, CSB
One of the most excessive political caricatures, Ubu Roi ranks with the most original and powerful burlesques of all time. The character Ubu Roi was actually based on a schoolteacher who taught Jarry and was fat, mediocre, and hated no more than Jarry hated the mediocrity he saw which was all lumped together in the nineteenth century bourgeois view of art. The play deals with the cruelty of despots and the stupidity of the human condition. "It is timeless, placeless, it shamelessly displays what civilization tries hard to hide."