Posts Tagged ‘puppetry’

How better to kick off San Diego’s first-ever Fringe Festival than with a play that’s zany and bawdy, features human and puppet grotesques, and has a century-old absurdist pedigree? “Ubu Roi” (King Ubu) by French author Alfred Jarry  premiered officially in 1896 (unofficially, Jarry staged it as a puppet play in 1888 when he was…