The Trial of Ubu by Simon Stephens

Author:Simon Stephens
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781408172445
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-11-27T00:00:00+00:00

King Ubu: Characters

Pa Ubu

Ma Ubu

Dogpile

McClub

Good King Wenceslas

Prince Billiam in Skates

Nobs

Judges

Bankers

Norbert Nurdle

Achras

This version should be performed by puppets.

King Ubu

A new version of Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry

written by Simon Stephens

from a translation by Kenneth McLeish

One

Pa Ubu alone. Ma Ubu enters.

Pa Ubu Ah shitters!

Ma Ubu Watch your language Pa Ubu!

Pa Ubu Shut your gob Ma! Or I’ll bash your block off.

Ma Ubu Not my block Pa, you nobster. Someone else’s.

Pa Ubu Bugger me backwards, what are you waffling on about?

Ma Ubu Think about it Pa Ubu. Are you really happy with who you are?

Pa Ubu Of course I am. Shitters! Who wouldn’t be? Captain of the Guard, Eye and Ear of Good King Wenceslas, Past President of the Battalions of Baleshnik, Thane of Four-Door. What more could a blubbery bugger want?

Ma Ubu Who gives a toss about the Thane of Four-Door? You want to get your block measured up for the crown of Baleshnik.

Pa Ubu Ma Ubu, what are you on about?

Ma Ubu Use your imagination you nobster! Good King Wenceslas! Off with his head!

Pa Ubu Ma Ubu you worm bucket! I’m Captain of the Guard. Murder Good King Wenceslas? His Maj of Baleshnik? I’d rather die.

Ma Ubu (aside) Shitters. (Aloud.) You want to be Daddy Mouse for ever? Poor Daddy Mouse?

Pa Ubu Bugger me backwards you blubbery tit, I’d rather be poor, honest Daddy Mouse than Big Fat Cat that Nicked the Cream.

He goes, slamming the door.

Ma Ubu (calling) If you were King you could have a great big hat! And a brolly! And a coat that trailed along the floor!

She is left alone.

Shitters, what a tight-arse. Never mind. Slibbady jibbet I’ll nobble the nobster. With God’s good help, not to mention mine, I’ll be Queen of Baleshnik by Saturday.

Pa Ubu comes back.

Pa Ubu Did you say a great big hat?

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