Ubu the King Reviews

Chicago Reader- Highly Recommended

"...Grace Needlman's cunning and hilarious soft-body designs give us Papa Ubu as a kind of nasty, talking bag, Mama Ubu as a bag with a facelift, and braces of soldiers ready for slaughter. Black-costumed koken descend into their own, subsidiary coups. And the debraining machine was such a hoot that I stopped minding the kazoos."

NewCity Chicago- Highly Recommended

"...Brimmed with stuffing and bolt-eyes, "Ubu the King" is as much spectacle as social commentary and body jokes. In the center, power and manipulation; on the skin, hidden hands and phantom joints. Framed as such, the puppeteers become ghostly figures who struggle for control of the play as much as Pa Ubu struggles to remain in control. This provides a direct corollary: the analogy is set, these puppets are people and the people are puppets, all guided by mysterious ambitions and forces beyond their control."