| Adaptor 1 |
Rudakoff, Judith
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| Adaptor 2 |
Wasyk, Darrell |
| Adaptor 3 |
Bruno, Walter
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| Date of First
Production |
1985, January 19-February 3 |
| Title |
Ubu the King |
| Director |
Darrell Wasyk |
| Place of First
Production |
Toronto Free Theatre |
| Production
Company |
45.3 Theatre Company |
| Technical
Design/Direction |
Music: Barry Prophet
Set/Lighting: Graeme Thomson
Choreography: Emerita Emerencia
Costumes: Reg Bronskill, Kathy Climey, Laura Divilio, Jack King, Barbara Klunder, Ed Kotanen, Patsy Lang, Sue Lepage, Janice Lindsay, Tina Livingston, Gary Macleod, Bruce Mallot, Diz Marsh, Janine Mather, Roderick Mayne, Jak Oliver, Jim Plaxton, Cameron Porteous, Debbie Porter, Jonathan Porter, Cathy Vallely, Myles Warren, Joyce Weiland. |
| Cast/Performers |
Ubu: Roger A. McKeen
Mother Ubu: Julian Richings
Sergeant Bordua:
King Wencesname: Mark Brownell
Queen Eleanore:
Primo Bougrelas: Tanya Lukenoff
Sandro:
Arturo:
Skim:
Whiff:
General Cottswald:
Squadleader Groan:
Dooley, King of the Carps: Kevin Stewart
Finance Man:
Phynance Man:
Nobles:
Clerks:
Peasants:
Carpcaptain:
Laszlo: |
| Year Play
Written |
1985
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| Awards |
1985, Dora Mavor Moore Award, Outstanding New Play Finalist |
| Secondary
Materials |
*Crew, Robert. "Nothing Succeeds Like Excess with Ubu." Toronto Star 25 Jan. 1985: F3.
*Fraser, Matthew. "Ubu Updates Outrage." Globe and Mail 21 Jan. 1994: S12.
*Kaplan, Jon. "Ubu's Costumed and Crazy." NOW nd.
*Sherman, Jason. "Revenge Tragedy and Wasyk's Ubu Challenge Their Audiences." Excalibur 31 Jan. 1985: 9.
*University of Toronto Community Radio. [script of radio review] Nd. |
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| Adaptor 1
Biography |
"Judith Rudakoff has worked as a developmental dramaturg on three continents as well as maintaining an active profile as a writer, educator and contemporary theatre historian for two decades. Her new work creation methodologies using The Four Elements, archetypal mythologies and Russian LOMO photography have been used in England, Cuba, South Africa and at York University, where she coordinates the graduate and undergraduate playwriting and new play dramaturgy programmes. Judith is the only foreigner declared an Honourary Member of Cuba's Teatro Escambray and her play, Sin Tenen, was the first Canadian play produced professionally in Cuba" (qtd. from 25 Oct. 2003. http://www.puc.ca/cgi-bin/puc/catalogue.cgi?function=detail&Authors_uid=287). |
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http://www.puc.ca/cgi-bin/puc/catalogue.cgi?function=detail&Authors_uid=287
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| Adaptor 1
Bibliography |
"Judith Rudakoff." Playwrights Guild of Canada. 25 Oct. 2003.
http://www.puc.ca/cgi-bin/puc/catalogue.cgi?function=detail&Authors_uid=287. |
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http://www.puc.ca/cgi-bin/puc/catalogue.cgi?function=detail&Authors_uid=287
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| Adaptor
2 Biography |
Independent film and television director.
Directed H (1991); Mustard Bath (1993); The Hunger (Showtime TV-1997-2000) |
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| Synopsis |
Pere Ubu is a commandant in the country of Arcadia, a servant of King Wensesname and his family. But Mere Ubu has aspirations for her husband - she pushes him to murder the royal family and seize the crown. With the aid of allies, the cowardly Pere Ubu takes the crown and becomes a dictator. He quickly crumbles when Arcadia's Prince Bougrelas fights to regain the throne. Like Hamlet, he has to be pushed to action by the ghost of his slain father. After fleeing to the Arctic, Mere and Pere Ubu sail to freedom in America. |
| Keywords |
Collective Creation
Translation |
| Notes |
Translations and productions of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi test the boundaries of what can be considered adaptations of Shakespeare. We have included productions of Ubu Roi because they are adaptations of Jarry's adaptation of Macbeth and because they have been produced so many times in Canada. |
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| Adaptation
of |
Ubu Roi, by Alfred Jarry
Macbeth |
| Entry Last Updated |
16Dec03 11:05AM |
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