`Ubu Rock' is raw, exuberant nightmare From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: June 9, 1995| Author: | Copyright 1995 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

UBU ROCK

Play in two acts by Shelley Berc and Andrei Belgrader,

based on Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi."

Music and lyrics by Rusty Magee.

Directed by Belgrader. Set, Andrei Both. Lighting, John

Ambrosone. Costumes, Catherine Zuber.

At: the Loeb Drama Center, through July 16

Who would have thought at the beginning of the season that the most entertaining and provocative production of the American Repertory Theatre schedule -- one that included a new play by David Mamet as well as new stagings of "Waiting for Godot," "Henry V" and "The Threepenny Opera" -- would be a rock-musical ...

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