Matija Solce’s project, a cabaret inspired by motifs from Alfred Jarry’s epic, brings together musicians, puppeteers, and actors at the crossroads of political theatre, object theatre, grotesque “merdre” operetta, and Dadaist concert. King Ubu needs no updating—its relevance is universal, grotesquely exposing the ever-present immoral, hypocritical, cowardly, servile, and greedy self-proclaimed “kings.” Unlike the scandalous original that shocked late-19th-century France, Teater Matite’s production uses language as sound, signal, and deconstruction. Words morph into barking, music, a fart symphony, or a poetic mass execution. A quintet of “Dadaists”—actors, musicians, animators, and eccentric creators—draws us into UBU-ism, pataphysics, and ironic social critique. With toilet brushes, mime puppets, drums, keyboard, bass, and their own bodies, they perform a disturbing aspiration of our time: to serve an idiot. U!-BU? goes beyond grotesque spectacle. It provokes through interactions with the body and by pressuring our status symbols, ideologies, and beliefs. Like Ubu himself, the performance confronts all levels of society head-on, critically examining everything—while knowingly sparing itself. Join this eccentric, high-energy cabaret that playfully—and undemocratically—insists on its singular truth. Theatre is dead. Long live theatre!