![]() Written by a very young Jarry (1873-1907), “Ubu Roi” caused riots when it opened in Paris in 1896, and its shock waves continue to vibrate. The longtime leaders of the British troupe Cheek by Jowl - the director Declan Donnellan and the designer Nick Ormerod, working with a French cast - have come up with a revitalizing approach to a watershed of transgressive culture. ![]() Yet it’s impossible not to be transfixed by the raging force of its energy. Like many visions born of disgust and hormones run riot, this one is a horror to behold. ![]() Not that Mom and Dad are likely to identify directly with these filthy (rich and otherwise) royals.īut they may well suspect, with a shudder, that what they’re seeing onstage is more or less what their high-school-age sons and daughters see when they look upon their doting parents. Though this flamboyantly vicious play first opened in the late 19th century, contemporary parents will find much to disturb them in its portrait of a murderous Macbeth-like monarch and his fiendish queen. Lynch Theater as part of the Lincoln Center Festival. Vive l’adolescence! The spirit of rancorous rebellion that rumbles within every teenager is storming the bourgeois barricades in Cheek by Jowl’s inspired rethinking of Alfred Jarry’s “Ubu Roi,” the satirical drama that once rattled Paris to its foundations, which runs through Sunday at the Gerald W.
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