Ubu Roi

By his green candle, he will be the king.

Alfred Jarry’s infamous 1896 comedy Ubu Roi follows the ridiculous rise and fall of Père Ubu in his greedy struggle to conquer other nations by use of violence and sheer dumb luck. The play is a zany warning against the powers of an ever-hungry despot, a warning which seems ever more pressing in our modern world.

Content Warning: This production contains material of a sexual nature, depictions of violence, depictions of drug use, loud noises, flashing lights, atmospherics and latex.

Ubu Roi

by Alfred Jarry

Translated by Barbara Wright

Timms Centre for the Arts

December 1-10, 2022

Preview: December 1, 2022

Opening: December 2, 2022

Matinee: December 8, 2022

No performance: Sunday December 4, 2022

Evening performances start at 7:30pm

Matinee performance starts at 12:30pm

Ticket Prices:

Preview: Adult/Senior $10, Student $5
*Opening Night: Adult $28, Senior $25, Student $15
*Enjoy a post show reception with your Opening Night ticket
Evenings: Adult $27, Senior $24, Student $14
Thursday Matinee: Adult $23, Senior $20, Student $14
1/2 Price Mondays: Adult $13.50, Senior $12, Student $7

In Person Box Office Hours:
Tuesdays and Thursdays 11am - 2pm AND 1 hour before performances.

Panel Discussion:

"The Art of Everything: Saturation and Metamodernism in Ubu Roi"

Dec 6 after the performance

Please join us for a panel discussion with production dramaturgs Brandon Shalansky and Zhuohao Li, director David Woroner and designer T. Erin Gruber.

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CREATIVE TEAM

Director — David Woroner

Playwright — Alfred Jarry

Translated by — Barbara Wright

Set, Costume, Lighting & Projected Media Designer — T. Erin Gruber

Sound Designer — Emma Nokes

Associate Designers — Kristen Fernandes, Brock Keeler

Stage Manager — Patton Wei

Assistant Stage Manager (Props) — Kade Mazury

Assistant Stage Manager (Costumes) — Curtis Gauthier

Intimacy Coordinator & Fight Director — Janine Waddell*

Intimacy & Dance Captain — Kristin Unruh

Vocal Coach — Joshua Meredith

Movement Coach — Minggao Zhang

Dramaturgs — Zhuohao Li, Brandon Shalansky

THE CAST

Mère Ubu — Lora Brovold*

Cotice, Queen Rosemonde, The Shade — Karen Gomez

The Bear — Daniel Halpern

Père Ubu — Dave Horak*

King Venceslas, People, Noble, Magistrate, Financier, The Emperor Alexis — Christian Krushel

Partisan, Conspirator/Soldier, The Whole Polish Army, People, Noble, Magistrate, Financier, Phynancial Adviser — Larissah Lashley

Bougrelas, Stanislas Leczinski — Emily Lizotte

Messenger, Boleslas, Laquey, Noble, Peasant, Councillor, The Phynancial Horse, A Voice, General Lascy, The Captain of the Ship — Aaron Refugio

Partisan, Ladislas, Giron, Michel Fédérovitch, Nicolas Rensky, Jean Sobieski — Kristin Unruh

Pile, People — Alice Wordsworth

Captain Bordure — Katie Yoner

PRODUCTION TEAM

Technical Director — Larry Clark

Assistant Technical Director — Derek Miiller

Head of Wardrobe — Joanna Johnston

Cutter — Julie Davie

Wardrobe Crew — Aspen Mendoza

Head of Carpentry — Darrell Cooksey

Assistant Scenic Carpenter — Garrett DeRede

Properties Master — Jane Kline

Properties Assistants — Tiffany Martineau, Lieke den Bakker, Dree Beaudry

Head of Sound — Kai Yakichuk

Head of Lighting — Dylan MacKay

Head of Paint — Taylor Howell

Head Stage Carpenter — Derek Miiller

Lighting Supervisor — Jeff Osterlin, Laura Koyata, Kevin Humphrey, Anthony Hunchak

Sound Supervisor — Matt Skopyk

FACULTY and ADVISORS

Studio Theatre Artistic Coordinator — David Kennedy

Interim Drama Department Chair — Natalie Loveless

Stage Management Advisors — John Raymond, Oliver Armstrong

Directing Advisor— Beau Coleman

Design Advisor— Robert Shannon

Paint Advisor — Cindi Zuby

THE CREW

Lighting Operator — Jessica Haight

Sound Operator — Juliana Stephens

Video Operator — Faith Conner

Lighting Crew — Bradley Lanceleve, Vale de la Torre, Liam Weeks, Robbie Hemsworth, Harjot Bassi, Nichole Man

Paint Crew — Faith Conner, Jess Haight, Liam Weeks, Vale de la Torre Villasenor

Stage Carpenter — Derek Miiller

* member of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association

SPECIAL THANKS

Kevin Humphrey and the Jubilee Auditorium

ADMINISTRATION

Production and Operations Manager — Joshua C. McIntosh

Operations Manager — Ha Neul Kim

Box Office Coordinator — Candice Stollery

Executive/Administrative Assistant — Helen Baggaley

Production and Operations Assistant — Emily Pole

Operations Assistant — Andraya Diogo

Fine Arts Information and Outreach Coordinator — Trish Agrell-Smith

Playbill

Featuring...

Featuring

Lora Brovold*

Cast, Mère Ubu

Karen Gomez

Cast, Queen Rosemonde, Cotice, The Shade

Daniel Halpern

Cast, The Bear

Christian Krushel

King Venceslas, Emperor Alexis, Noble, Magistrate, Financier, the Whole Russian Army

Emily Lizotte

Cast, Bougrelas, Stanislas Leczinski, Russian Army

Emma Nokes

Creative Team, Sound Designer

Kristin Unruh

Cast, Ladislas, Giron, Michel Federovitch, Nicolas Rensky, et. al

Alice Wordsworth

Cast, Pile

Katie Yoner

Cast, Bordure

Kristen Fernandes

Creative Team, Associate Video Designer

T. Erin Gruber

Set, Costume, Lighting and Projected Media Designer

David Horak*

Actor, Pere Ubu

Larissah Lashley

Cast, Student, Partisan, Conspirator/Soldier, The Whole Polish Army, People, Noble, Magistrate, Financier, Phynancial Adviser

Kade Mazury

Crew, Assistant Stage Manager

Aaron Refugio

Boleslas/The Phynancial Horse/General Lascy/Captain of the Ship

Janine Waddell*

Creative Team, Fight and Intimacy Director

David Woroner

Creative Team, Director

Minggao Zhang

Movement Coach

Curtis Gauthier

Creative Team, Assistant Stage Manager (Wardrobe)

Jess Haight

Crew, Lighting Operator and Paint Crew

Brock Keeler

Creative Team, Associate Set Designer

Zhuohao Li

Dramaturgy

Josh Meredith

Voice Coach

Brandon Shalansky

Creative Team, Dramaturg

Patton Wei

Creative Team Stage Manager

Kai Yakichuk

Crew, Head of Sound

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*The participation of this Artist is arranged by permission of Canadian Actors' Equity Association under the provisions of the Dance-Opera-Theatre Policy

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"A dramaturg is a member of the artistic team of a theatre production who is a specialist in the transformation of a dramatic script into a meaningful living performance."

(5) Michael Mark Chemers, Ghost Light: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy, Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.

Infamous Doodles: Visualizing Ubu in Print

Brandon Shalansky

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

“By My Green Candle” — The Aesthetics of Green

Zhuohao Li

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

Zhuohao Li

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

Brandon Shalansky

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

Metamodernism II: Existential Saturation

Brandon Shalansky

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

Brandon Shalansky

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

Interviews

David Woroner

3 min

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?

Interview with Director David Woroner and Designer T. Erin Gruber

Zhuohao Li

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.

Brandon Shalansky

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

Gallery

UBU_Set Rendering_Rolling Staircase for Cave Scenes.jpg

Content compiled by T. Erin Gruber and Kirsten Fernandes

Ubu Roi

By his green candle, he will be the king.

Ubu Roi

by Alfred Jarry

Translated by Barbara Wright

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Timms Centre for the Arts

December 1-10, 2022

Preview: December 1, 2022

Opening: December 2, 2022

Matinee: December 8, 2022

​

No performance: Sunday December 4, 2022

Evening performances start at 7:30pm

Matinee performance starts at 12:30pm

​

​

Playbill

Featuring...

Lora Brovold*

Karen Gomez

Daniel Halpern

Christian Krushel

Emily Lizotte

Emma Nokes

Kristin Unruh

Alice Wordsworth

Katie Yoner

Kristen Fernandes

T. Erin Gruber

David Horak*

Larissah Lashley

Kade Mazury

Aaron Refugio

Janine Waddell*

David Woroner

Minggao Zhang

Curtis Gauthier

Jess Haight

Brock Keeler

Zhuohao Li

Josh Meredith

Brandon Shalansky

Patton Wei

Kai Yakichuk

*The participation of this Artist is arranged by permission of Canadian Actors' Equity Association under the provisions of the Dance-Opera-Theatre Policy

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"A dramaturg is a member of the artistic team of a theatre production who is a specialist in the transformation of a dramatic script into a meaningful living performance."

(5) Michael Mark Chemers, Ghost Light: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy, Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.

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