Last fall, the Es Baluard Museum in Palma de Mallorca presented Robert Wilson’s work UBU, which was inspired by Alfred Jarry’s drama Ubu Roi, a 1896 grotesque about tyranny, greed and abuse of power. In preparation of the presentation of the work at the co-producing Kunstfest Weimar this coming August, Wilson developed a radio play on UBU for the German radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur, starring actress and long-time Wilson collaborator Angela Winkler. The first public broadcast will be on May 21, 2023, and the work will also be available online and in Deutschlandfunk’s podcast collection. More information here.
Angela Winkler and Robert Wilson at the Deutschlandfunk’s recording studio.(Photographs © Deutschlandradio / Gerald Michel)