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UBU ENCHAINED

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Alfred Jarry 's play translated from the French by Simon Watson Taylor with music by JOHN BECKETT with Norman Shelley as Pa Ubu Characters in order of speaking:
Adapted for radio and produced by MARTIN Esslin
Second broadcast
Pere Ubu , Alfred Jarry 's creation of a monster of greed embodying all that he detested in the French bourgeois of his time, is widely regarded as one of the ancestors of surrealist drama. It was written by Jarry in 1899.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alfred Jarry
Unknown:
Simon Watson Taylor
Music By:
John Beckett
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Produced By:
Martin Esslin
Unknown:
Pere Ubu
Unknown:
Alfred Jarry
Narrator:
Godfrey Kenton
The Three Free Men:
Peter Bartlett
The Three Free Men:
Leroy Lingwood
The Three Free Men:
Geoffrey Wincott
Pissweet, their Corporal:
Geoffrey Matthews
Ma Ubu:
Margaret Wolfit
Pa Ubu:
Norman Shelley
Pissale:
Duncan McIntyre
Eleutheria, his niece:
Freda Dowie
Judge:
Ralph Truman
Public Prosecutor:
Wilfrid Carter
Defence Counsel:
Wolfe Morris
Gaoler:
James Thomason
Soliman's Vizier:
Peter Bartlett
Soliman, Sultan of the Turms:
Geoffrey Matthews
Lord Cornholer:
Allan McClelland
Jack, his valet:
Charles Hodgson
Source: Radio Times

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