O Julgamento de Ubu
Event
In 1888, Alfred Jarry premiered his “Ubu Roi”, performed by the Puppets of the Theatre of Phynances. More than a hundred years later, British playwright Simon Stephens imagined a sequel, “O Julgamento de Ubu” [The Trial of Ubu] (2010), a play now performed by “Teatro de Marionetas do Porto” and directed by Nuno M Cardoso. In the first part, it is through the art of puppetry that the eschatological nonsense of Jarry's Ubuesque saga is returned to us, and then, through human figuration, to seat Ubu in the dock of an International Criminal Court and instigate a collective soul-searching on power and its procedures. “This trial. This language. It's important to you, isn't it?”, Ubu confrount us. In the game of manipulation and scale of puppets and human figures, a savage satire is drawn on the duel between legal justice and moral justice, which brings us face to face with the intransigence of Ubu, a symbol of contemporary dictators. "Do you know what's going on in my head as I listen to you talk about justice?"
