Ubu Roi

by Alfred Jarry

Performances: April 13 through 16, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. outdoors in the North Third Street sculpture garden

As subversive as it is sophomoric, Jarry’s most famous and funniest play–which provoked audiences to riot at its Paris premiere in 1896–marks the beginning of avant-garde theater and the rudiments of an aesthetic that influenced Dada, the surrealists, and the absurdists. Farcical, scatological, and crammed with pointless plot twists, King Ubu has grown into a mirror of our meaningless world. Directed by Suzanne Westfall.

Auditions: For information, contact Professor Westfall (westfals@lafayette.edu)