by Alfred Jarry
Translated by Barbara Wright
Narrator (Jon Rollason ); Pere Ubu (Maurice Denham ); Mere Ubu, his wife (Betty Hardy ); Captain Bordure (Malcolm Hayes ); King Venceslas of Poland (John Hollis ); Queen Rosemonde, his wife (Thea Holme ); Bougrelas, their son (David Spenser ); A Shade (Gabriel Woolf ); Michel Federovitch (Keith Williams ); Stanislas Leczinski (Jon Rollason ); Tsar Alexis of Russia (David Bird ); partisans, soldiers, people, nobles, magistrates, financiers, peaj-ants, counsellors, the whole Polish army, the whole Russian army, and others (members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company)
Music composed by John Bf-ckett conducted by Bernard Keeffe
Singer, John Frost
Production by Barbara Bray
Ubu Roi often called the first Surrealist play, was produced in Paris in 1896, when It gave rise to a controversy that has continued ever since. Listeners to the Art— Anti-Art series will have noticed that this work, according to Sacha Guitxry ' one of the most original and powerful burlesques of al! time,' provided a point of reference for many of the speakers.