3. Theatre

Ubu Roi: an unforgiving satire on manners old and modern

Almost 120 years after its notorious Parisian premiere, Alfred Jarry's Ubu

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dinner-party hosts (whom the boy’s vandalising imagination transforms
into the rampantly horrible Ma and Pa Ubu), Donnellan lends it the air
of an unforgiving satire on deranging modern manners.

As I noted in my review, even if the scatological puerility is honoured