PCC Mainstage Theater presents “Ubu Roi”, by Alfred Jarry

What happens when Hamlet, Macbeth, Chappel Roan, Raygun and certain familiar political figures collide with a play written in the 1800s that caused riots because it was considered so odd and offensive?!

Come find out by coming to see the PCC production of Ubu Roi! It's going to be a RIOT!!

One of the most excessive political caricatures, Ubu Roi ranks with the most original and powerful burlesques of all time. The character Ubu Roi was actually based on a schoolteacher who taught Jarry and was fat, mediocre, and hated no more than Jarry hated the mediocrity he saw which was all lumped together in the nineteenth century bourgeois view of art. The play, which takes place in Poland or nowhere, deals with the cruelty of despots and the stupidity of the human condition. "It is timeless, placeless, it shamelessly displays what civilization tries hard to hide." ~ Barbara Wright.

This performance is presented to satisfy a portion of the requirements for Theater Rehearsal and Performance (THRT 029), Stage Techniques (THRT 030), and/or Fundamentals of Stage Lighting (THRT 041).

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