The Aljub of the Es Baluard museum serves as the setting for the world premiere of Ubu, an unprecedented theatrical show directed by the American playwright and set designer Robert Wilson.
The work is inspired by the text Ubu Roi, a critique against war and totalitarianism written by Alfred Jarry in 1896 that is still as valid today as it was at the time it was created. The proposal for this new Ubu is linked to the Personae exhibition. Masks against barbarism, which can be visited at Es Baluard until the end of 2022.
At the starting point of the work, the 125th anniversary of the first staging of the play by Jarry, Ubu Roi, and the adaptation by Joan Miró under the title Mori el Merma come together in collaboration with the theater company La Claca, which It premiered at the Teatre Principal in Palma in 1978.
The premiere of Ubu Roi in Paris on December 10, 1896 was a scandal and so offended the audience that it was closed that same day. With this work, Jarry became one of the forerunners of surrealism, Dadaism and the theater of the absurd. Languages: Catalan and English.
