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Running Time: 120 minutes
The Financial Times
4 - 21 Dec 2019
Shoreditch Town Hall, London
8 – 25 Jan 2020
Marble Factory, Bristol
28 Jan - 1 Feb 2020
The Lowry, Salford
4 - 8 Feb 2020
Leeds Playhouse (on sale soon)
We all know King Ubu. That deranged dictator we all love to hate.
Impossibly greedy, unstoppably crude, inexorably daft and hell-bent on making the country great again!
Sound familiar?
Based by Alfred Jarry’s riot-inducing masterpiece, Kneehigh will let rip with their own version of theatre’s most anarchic creations – KING UBU.
Expect world-class buffoonery in this deliriously unhinged improvised promenade musical (surely the first of its kind!). Featuring some of the most iconic anthems of our times, given a fresh rub for their money by a belting Kneehigh band, plus an extraordinary choir of extras – you! – we guarantee this will be a rocking, rollicking riot of ridiculousness that you won’t forget.
He’ll rise! He’ll reign! Only together will we make Ubu fall!
“A perfect blend of slapstick, pertinent politics and fist-in-the-air singalong. Rousing, riotous stuff!” – Mark Kermode
Please note: During this performance you will be up on your feet and free to wander, leave your phones on, go to the bar and sing as loud as you can with the rest of the audience.
Running Times: 120 Minutes
Cornwall Live
Mr Ubu
Katy Owen
Mrs Ubu, His Wife
Mike Shepherd
Bobbi, His Daughter
Kyla Goodey
Jeremy Wardle, The Host
Niall Ashdown
President Nick Dallas
Dom Coyote
Captain Shittabrique
Robbi Luckay
The Brave Dissenter
Nandhi Bhebe
Introducing the House Band, The Sweaty Bureaucrats:
Alex Lupo
Dom Coyote
Justin Lee Radford
Renell Shaw
Nandi Bhebe
Writer & Co-Director
Carl Grose
Co-Director
Mike Shepherd
Music Director
Charles Hazlewood
Designer
Michael Vale
Lighting Designer
Mike Gunning
Prop Maker
Alice King
Costume Supervisor
Megan Rarity
Dias Stage originally designed by Bill Mitchell
and built by John Voogd
With special thanks to
Ian Ross, Giles King, and Tom Jackson Greaves
