Alfred Jarry‘s absurdist play Ubu Roi takes more than a few irreverent lashes at Poland ... teh last drawing from the King Ubu comic book by Franciszka Themerson Warsaw-born painter Franciszka ...

Jarry said Ubu Roi was about his old schoolmaster, whom he hated, and whom he and other pupils would call Ubu and poke fun at, but the more Nick and I read the play, the more it struck us that it ...