Director's Note
The question everyone always seems to want to ask you when you choose a play to direct is “Why?” Why this particular play? Why now?
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Zhuohao Li
- Nov 28, 2022
- 1 min
Interview with Director David Woroner and Designer T. Erin Gruber
PhD in Performance and Theatre Studies student Zhuohao Li produced this interview video with Ubu Roi Director David Woroner and Designer T.
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Brandon Shalansky
- Nov 28, 2022
- 4 min
Infamous Doodles: Visualizing Ubu in Print
Though famous for its wild impact in the theatre, Ubu Roi’s life in print also has significance in the history of art, graphics, and publica
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Zhuohao Li
- Nov 28, 2022
- 2 min
“By My Green Candle” — The Aesthetics of Green
The colour green pervades Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu Roi. It is repeated over and over in the phrase “par ma chandelle verte,” meaning “by my g
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Zhuohao Li
- Nov 28, 2022
- 2 min
Ubu “We” — Jarry and/as Ubu
We are all Ubu, still blissfully ignorant of our destructiveness and systematically practicing the soul-devouring ‘reversal’ of flushing our
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Brandon Shalansky
- Nov 26, 2022
- 2 min
Metamodernism I: Reformulating Truth
Metamodernism has been an incredibly important theoretical framework in the development of Studio Theatre’s production of Ubu Roi. It has be
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Brandon Shalansky
- Nov 25, 2022
- 3 min
Metamodernism II: Existential Saturation
No object or force has impacted the rapidly changing social landscape and infrastructure of the twentieth century as powerfully as the inter
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Brandon Shalansky
- Nov 24, 2022
- 8 min
How We Create “Everything”
Excerpts from a conversation with director David Woroner, designer T. Erin Gruber, and dramaturg Brandon Shalansky on collaboration and meta
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Brandon Shalansky
- Nov 24, 2022
- 3 min
Metamodernism III: Hypermoderism
Within and parallel-to the development of metamodernism over the past few decades has been the emerge of another theory called hypermoderism
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