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| | UBU AND THE TRUTH COMMISSION : HANDSPRING PUPPET COMPANY - cutting edge Puppet Theatre |
 | | Ubu Roi follows the political, military, and criminal exploits of the grandiose and rapacious Ubu, a kind of parodic Macbeth who, together with his wife, attempts to seize all power for himself. |
 | | Ubu's weapons are a pshittasword and a pshittashook, and his sceptre is by tradition a lavatory brush, a stage prop which you will see appear in our production. |
 | | Ubu's story is, at one level, a singular story of individual pathology; yet it is at the same time an exemplary account of the relationships between capitalist ideology, imperialism, race, class, and gender, religion and modernisation in the southern African sub-region. |
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