LINKTV Journal November 12, 2013
Is a grotesque monster who mishandles everything he touches and everyone he knows. Where traditional drama seriously deals with plots against a ruler or the downfall of a kingdom, ubu goes to work with water pistol and kazoo. Where traditional drama shows the whispered conspiracy of a queen inciting her husband to greater power, ubu roi shows a blowsylooking, overstuffed woman hurling obscenities as undignified as any uttered by her husband. And where traditional drama carefully builds a plot from opening scene to final resolution, ubu roi jumps around in time and space, deliberately episodic,...