tags: #publish links: [[Theatre]] created: 2020-09-17 Thu --- # Ubu Roi A [[Dadaism|Dadaist]] play (1896) by Alfred Jarry. Precursor to [[Dadaism]], [[Surrealism]] and the [[Theatre of the Absurd]], maybe to [[Modernism]], similar to [[Symbolism]] A wild, bizarre, comic play. Seems childish, obscene, disrepectful. *Depicts the borgeoisie as the super-mediocre.* Satirises power, greed, abuse of authority. Sometimes called *King Turd*. A parody of Macbeth and some parts of Hamlet and King Lear.