U.S. Premiere
Ubu, a crass duke, murders King Wenceslau at the suggestion of his scheming wife. When Ubu takes the throne, Poland plunges into chaos, with the country at the mercy of Ubu’s whims and eccentricities. When a revolt against Ubu begins, he doubles down, grasping for any shred of power that he can hold onto. Paulo Abreu’s adaptation of Alfred Jarry’s turn-of-the-century satire, rendered in stark black and white, captures the cruelty and irrational behavior that living at the core of fascism.
