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ALFRED JARRY. ONE DIRECTION. ONE DIRECTION. Finished 3rd in 2010 X-Factor Managed by Simon Cowell Huffington Post named 2012 ‘The Year of One Direction’. ONE DIRECTION IMPORTANT FACTS. Zayn has a tattoo on his chest which says his Grandfathers name, in Arabic. Liam has a fear of spoons.
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ONE DIRECTION • Finished 3rd in 2010 X-Factor • Managed by Simon Cowell • Huffington Post named 2012 ‘The Year of One Direction’
ONE DIRECTIONIMPORTANT FACTS • Zayn has a tattoo on his chest which says his Grandfathers name, in Arabic. • Liam has a fear of spoons. • If Liam wasn't in the band he would work in a factory building airplanes.
ONE DIRECTIONIMPORTANT FACTS • Harry said "One day I would love to go to New Zealand, I've always wanted to go there!" • Liam can play a bit of piano and a bit of guitar. • When Harry was younger he used to write on his toast with food colouring.
ONE DIRECTIONIMPORTANT FACTS • Zayn likes girls who are intelligent. • Louis like it when girls wear glasses, real or not. • Harry and Louis first met in the toilets at X Factor. • Niall likes it when girls can put on different accents and can speak different languages.
Alfred Jarry • 1873 - Born September 8th (feast of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin) • 1888-91 Enters the Rennes lyceé, becomes friends with Henri Morin • 1890 - First performances of the ‘Théâtre des Phynances’ at the Morin’s home.
FELIX HERBERT • “An extremely slow teacher who wastes an enormous amount of time and is unable to complete the syllabus... His results are extremely feeble... his lessons are ill-prepared, particularly the practical experiments, which are marred by repeated accidents” - Principal’s report
Alfred Jarry • 1891 - moves to Paris • First Lodging - Dead Man’s Calvary • 1894 - Publication of first book “Les Minutes De Sable Memorial” • 1895 - In Military Service - drinks acid • 1897 - Publishes ‘Days and Nights’
Alfred Jarry • 1896 - First performance of Ubu Roi • 1899 - Completes Ubu cycle and begins the Almanacs • 1902 - Le Surmale • 1907 - Dies • 1911 - Gestes and Opinions Du Doctor Faustroll, ‘Pataphysicien
Letter to Lugné Poe (1896) • Mask for the principal character • Cardboard Horse’s head • One single set or plain backdrop • Abolition of Crowds • Use of a special accent • Costumes ‘as divorced as far as possible from local colour or chronology’.
REDUCTIONS M. Herbert Pere Hebe Pere Ubu
Ubu - The Performance • Had two performances - one a dress rehearsal • Music by Claude Terrasse and his mother • Initial address by Jarry
Ubu - The Performance • And we also have the ideal setting, for just as a play can be set in Eternity by, say, letting people fire revolvers in the year one thousand or thereabouts, so you will see doors opening onto snow covered plains under blue skies, mantlepieces with clocks on them swinging open to turn into doorways, and palm trees flourishing at the foot of beds so that little elephants perching on bookshelves can graze on them... And the action, which is about to start, takes place in Poland, that is to say, nowhere.
Jarry on Theatre • I intended when the curtain went up that the scene should confront the public like the exaggerating mirror in the stories of Madame de Beaumont, in which the depraved saw themselves with dragon’s bodies or bull’s horns, or whatever corresponded to their particular vice.
I PREDICT A RIOT • On the opening night the play goes well up till an actor pretends to be a prison door... • “The Public, thinking that the joke had gone on long enough, began to howl, a tempest broke out on all sides, with shouts, yells, insults, accompanied by a broadside of whistles and a thousand other sorts of noise... even though I have played other avant-garde parts that have been poorly received, I have never had such a feeling that the public had plainly just had enough. Femin Gemier
I PREDICT A RIOT • On the second night, the performance is halted at the first line... • “It is a filthy hoax which deserves only contemptuous silence... this is the beginning of the end. For too long now these pranksters have laughed at us. enough is enough (Le Temps, Dec 14 1896)
I PREDICT A RIOT • “In spite of the late hour I have just taken a shower. An essential purgative measure after such a spectacle. Oh my head! My head!” (L’ Évenement December 11 1896) • “Stupidity has its limits, the indecency of these jokes cannot go unchecked... spoiled children and underhand butchers, their empty brains full of dreams, acclaimed by hypocrites and cowards.” (La Critique December 20 1896)
SO... Why the riot? • “ ...This performance resembled more a sort of deliverance... for the past few years this abstract and impersonal tyrant, this literary Ubu, terrorist of snobs, has become a dictator who has subsequently turned on the public. But he overestimated its complaisance and counted too much on its docility. The public became angry, and I am delighted to have been present at its revolt.” (Le Figaro, December 11th and 13th 1896)
Jarry has the final word... • It would have been easy to alter Ubu to suit the taste of the Paris public by making the following minor changes: the opening word would have been Blast (or Blastrr), the unspeakable brush would have been turned into a pretty girl going to bed, the army uniforms would have been First Empire style, Ubu would have been knighted by the Czar... but in that case it would have been filthier. Jarry: Theatre Questions
