created over 100 years ago is
still found in so many of our po-
litical leaders today. Jarry wrote
a short piece about time travel,
which was really a piece about
his bike, and I took that and ran
with it. Where in truth, Jarry died
from illness, alcoholism and mal-
nutrition, I surmised, after much
research, that in reality, he died
from time travel, trying to go
backwards in time to destroy his
creation UBU but ends up in the
future meeting a modern day
embodiment of UBU. It’s a really
out there play that needs to be
picked up..
There are a few companies do-
ing sci-fi theatre, but it’s a genre
that’s hard to put on a stage with
all the effects and design that is
involved.
its core is about humanity and
how far we’ve separated our-
selves from it. It’s a future-jazz
piece.
My play After Us The Sav-
age God is about the avant-
garde writer Alfred Jarry and
his twisted creation King UBU,
Speaking of films, I saw that a
which is something that can tie
screenplay of the story is being
very closely into the current po- rewritten. Are you hoping to go
litical climate. This beast that was down that road?
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