4 minutes | Monday, 16 October 2023
If you’re looking for something a little different to do this evening – then take in a puppet show. For grown-ups.
Veteran puppeteer Neville Tranter, originally from Australia – but adopted by the Netherlands, has adapted the classic French absurdist play Ubu Roi – which greatly offended the public when it was first performed in 1896.
Neville is using the puppets he created to bring the show to life –
Mark Butcher asked him for a quick synopsis of Ubu…
Ubu is on at the Théâtre des Marionnettes in Geneva from 17 to 20 October.