Alfred Jarry‘s absurdist play Ubu Roi takes ... portrait of post-communist Polish society in which Ubu declares war on Russia. 'If there was no Poland, there would be no Poles!', teh last drawing from ...

Jarry said Ubu Roi was about his old schoolmaster, whom he hated, and whom he and other pupils would call Ubu and poke fun at, but the more Nick and I read the play, the more it struck us that it ...