Jarry

The results of a google image search on alfred jarry include black and white portraits of him, some unusual illustrations, and an image of John Peel reading Ubu Roi - the play that Jarry is most famous for, because the first word in the first act is Merdre (shit). I am a fan of Peel so this interests me further - i wonder if i will have time to read the whole play by the end of the project...So there was a riot when this word was heard on the stage, and people booed, though it marked the beginning of experimental theatre and, soon after, the Surrealist movement arrived. Jarry did not just write plays, he wrote novels and texts, and developed his own theory of 'pataphysics' - a philosophy which concerns itself with parodying science theories and metaphysics. so in the loosest sense of the word he was a theorist. I need to look into this in greater depth as it is the background from which jarry took his ideas, and the ideology behind his work.