UBUmaterial Live: Mme Ubu in Paris – a memoir

Artists: PAPALANGKI Theatre Company

Location: Thessaloniki, Greece

Date: Monday, April 5th, 19:30 pm - 20:30 pm Greece Time | 12:30 pm EDT | 09:30 am PDT | 18:30 pm CEST | 21:00 pm IRST

Event Access: Instagram

UBUmaterial is an Instagram performative archive (in progress). Three performers/actors-narrators, isolated due to COVID-19’s lockdown, explore Alfred Jarry’s play ‘UBU Roi’ at home. UBUmaterial is published in "episodes", sometimes it broadcasts live, and it seeks interaction with the audience. The order of the videos is not important. Nor the frequency of uploads. We build UBUmaterial with and for the audience, bit by bit.

In 'UBUmaterial Live: Mme Ubu in Paris – a memoir' we invite audiences to participate and question the characters and their stories. The original play ends with the UBU couple escaping to Paris. Instead, this live Instagram event will examine what happened after they escaped. Some years later, Mme Ubu…