Ubu review " dictators and discord in dystopian take on Jarry's classic
Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonA brutal score by Jerskin Fendrix is the driving force behind this bleakly topical reworking of Alfred Jarry's Ubu RoiSince its premiere in 1896, Alfred Jarry's precocious classic, Ubu Roi, has been reinvented by successive generations in their own likeness. A back-of-the-classroom inversion of Macbeth, it's been done, according to the times, as absurdist farce, scatological comedy a…