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About: "Fictions of the interlude, colourfully covering the torpor and sloth of our underlying disbelief." -- Pessoa
“[Jarry’s] first play, “Ubu Roi,” which opened in December 1896 at the Théatre de l’Oeuvre in Montmartre (following the French premiere of Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt”), began with the title character uttering the single word: “Merdre!” Fifteen minutes of pandemonium followed, including fistfights and a liberal use of “le mot ubu,” with Jarry’s supporters screaming: “You wouldn’t understand Shakespeare either.” “What more is possible?” wrote W.B. Yeats, who had been present. “After us the Savage God.” —Another piece of riveting cultural history by Gabriel Josipovici 

(Source: The Wall Street Journal)
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