Mark Jacobs

Absurdist Play Cuckolded: Ubu Cocu @ SFU School for the Contemporary Arts

Absurdist Play Cuckolded: Ubu Cocu @ SFU School for the Contemporary Arts

Director Nicole DesLauriers makes Alfred Jarry's Ubu Cocu her own.

Words by Mark Jacobs Photo by Jonathan Kim Undertaking a production of Ubu Cocu (“Ubu Cuckolded”) is no mean feat; nor is it a conventional choice, even by the standards of deliberate transgression. The play is as incomprehensible as it is obscure. But director Nicole DesLauriers was more than game, inventing technical challenges for herself […]