UBU
Alfred Jarry
| Three plays following the adventures of Pa and Ma Ubu in their absurd world. King Ubu, the best known of the three, mirrors Macbeth as Ubu ousts the King, becomes a tyrant and is finally killed. “Its lunatic grotesquerie is brilliantly caught in McLeish's new translation... Exhilaratingly combines the erudite with the lavatorial ...classical parody and surreal farce anticipating avant-garde art as well as the Goons and Monty Python” (The Guardian). This translation premiered at the Gate Theatre, London, 1997. Volume also includes CUCKOLD UBU and SLAVE UBU. |
4+ M, 4+ F
Nick Hern Books, I S B N: 1-85459-189-4
, $8.95