Ep. 56 BRING ME THE HEAD OF UBU ROI w/ Josh (Patreon)

Topics: Alfred Jarry's Ubu Plays: Ubu Roi (1896/ 1888), Ubu Cocu, ou l'Archeopteryx (1987), Ubu Enchaíné (1899) + Jean-Christophe Averty's Ubu Roi (1965) + Jay Lenica's Ubu et la Grande Gidouille (1979) + Pere Ubu's “Long Live Père Ubu!” (2009)Guest: Josh (@tragic_fruit)In this wonderful episode, former Evil Thespian, Josh joins the show for a 'pataphysical investigation of Alfred Jarry's marvellous and scatological UBU PLAYS along with three landmark adaptations: The 1965 Averty movie, the 1979 Jay Lenica cartoon, and the 2009 album by the band who assumed the mantle of Jarry's most monstrous creationThis discussion pursues the Ubu archetype across the 20th and 21st centuries as a Universal Monster, finding his face and voice in everyone from Donald Trump, to Bill Clinton, to Evil Presley, to Eric Cartman and Homer Simpson- and examines the different literary uses to which this figure can be turned- as scabrous satirical instrument, or as a 'pataphysical surgical strike upon the human imaginationThis episode also begins with a gnarly radioplay adaptation of ACT 1, SCENE 1 of UBU ROI (in Cyril Connolly & Simon Watson Taylor's translation), featuring Melly (@mellybysea), of the wonderful NOWTHEN podcast, as the voice of Ma UbuREAD Josh's Substack THE DIONYSIAN DREAM