Within the first 15 minutes of its first performance, Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi had so enraged the audience that the show had to be paused. When the dust of the small riot settled, the production resumed--although the audience continued to boo and shout--and that performance of Ubu Roi proved to be the only live performance during Jarry’s lifetime.
Ubu Roi is a symbolist parody of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, in which Papa Ubu (poor and lowly) is manipulated by his wife to kill the king and seize the throne. While the plotline of Macbeth is the most consistent in the play, Jarry also used allusions
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