• The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Ubu Roi w/Dominic Dromgoole

  • Apr 15 2025
  • Length: 46 mins
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Ubu Roi w/Dominic Dromgoole

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  • Today’s Parisian revolution is a theatrical performance that produced a riot. David talks to theatre director Dominic Dromgoole about Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi (1896), which only ran for a couple of nights but left an indelible mark on the culture of the age and has resonated ever since. Why did a play effectively written by children provoke such a storm among the adults? What made it it blow the mind of W. B. Yeats who was in the audience? How can something so bad be so liberating? Next time: Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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