Director
Drama Eurokontext.si 2017, the Slovak National Theatre International Theatre Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia
A wild comedy about evil and greed
Director
30 January 2016
Main Stage
Duration:
The scandal that divided the audience after the 1896 premiere performance of Ubu the King of then merely 23-year-old Alfred Jarry unexpectedly heralded the developments of the 20th and seemingly also the 21st centuries, in the fields of both art and social life. In the arts, Ubu the King foreshadowed the avant-garde currents that swept away traditional forms, including Surrealism, Dadaism, and even the Theatre of the Absurd, absurd drama, and the subsequent Luddism. While for society it announced the forthcoming avalanche of greed and brutal slaughter. All this comes in the form of an unscrupulous, rowdy, and black-humoured play.
The reckless, greedy, avaricious, but actually cowardly Papa Ubu, incited by his wife, Mama Ubu, a parodied version of Lady Macbeth, to brutally seize power and govern in an even crueller and more totalitarian manner, evokes many allusions. One could even say that every era has its own King Ubu.
Jernej Šugman
Papa Ubu
Mama Ubu
Capetain Bordure
Big priest
Klemen Slakonja
Klemen Slakonja
Minister
Financier
Gregor Zorc
Judge / Big
Žan Perko
Negro / Little
Jernej Šugman – Best Actor Award “Mladen Crnobrnja Gumbek” for the role of Papa Ubu at Fadil Hadžić Days of Satire
Boris Mihalj – special achievement award as the author of the closing monologue at Fadil Hadžić Days of Satire
Golden Laurel Wreath for Best Production (MESS)
Jernej Lorenci – Golden Laurel Wreath for Best Director (MESS)
Jernej Šugman – Golden Laurel Wreath for Best Acting Performance (MESS)
Jernej Šugman – Borštnik Award for Acting
Borštnik Award for Collective Production
Drama Eurokontext.si 2017, the Slovak National Theatre International Theatre Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia
40th Fadil Hadžić Days of Satire, Zagreb, Croatia
56th International Theatre Festival MESS, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
51st Maribor Theatre Festival
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