Ubu Royale
Neil Bartlett
Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu Roi burst like a bomb on fin-de-siècle Paris; Neil Bartlett’s new translation was created during the London lockdown of 2021.
Cheerfully documenting the laugh-out-loud rise to power of a brain-dead despot, it finds in Jarry’s potty-mouthed original a dark mirror for the obscenities of Trump, Putin and Johnson.
Warning: this work of art contains war in Europe, dismembered bodies and some pretty dodgy Shakespeare gags. Plus, a big dead bear.
PAPERBACK PUBLISHED ON: 22/02/24
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Praise for Ubu Royale
‘Brilliant, beautiful, mischievous’ – The Independent
‘An exuberant individualist... his style is a disconcerting mix of the plush and the confrontational’ – The Times
‘A creative polymath of the highest order’ – Dazed & Confused
‘Seductive, dark, theatrical and fascinating… spellbinding’ – Russell Tovey
About the author
Neil Bartlett’s plays and translations have been performed by the National Theatre, the RSC, the Manchester Royal Exchange, the Glasgow Citizens Theatre, the Abbey in Dublin, the Arena Stage in Washington, the American Repertory Theatre in Boston – and by schools, colleges and amateur companies around the world.
His new stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando opened at the Garrick Theatre in London in 2022.