TEHRAN – Iranian director Qotbeddin Sadeqi plans to stage French symbolist writer Alfred Jarry’s play “Ubu Roi” at the 35th Fajr International Theater Festival, which is scheduled to be held in Tehran in February 2017.

“Ubu Roi”, which means Ubu the King, is about Ubu who leads a revolution and kills the king of Poland and most of the royal family. The play is a parody of Shakespeare’s Macbeth with bits of Hamlet and King Lear tossed in.

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