So Good You Can Almost Smell It Theatre Theatre Ubu the King, Tron Theatre, Glasgow 4/5

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PICK up the latest issue of Viz comic, and you'll find a brilliant array of cartoon stereotypes whose defining obsessive- compulsive features emphasise potty-mouthed grotesques indulging in bouts of indiscriminate violence, rutting and a penchant for bodily fluids. Alfred Jarry, whose outrageous tale of a vulgar little man's delusions of grandeur predated absurdism, would've loved it. You can't help but suspect, too, that David Greig, who has here adapted Jarry's defining piece of snook-cocking, already does.

Because on one level, Greig's filthy-rich, scatologically-foul version is one extended fart gag.

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So Good You Can Almost Smell It Theatre Theatre Ubu the King, Tron Theatre, Glasgow 4/5

Like Viz, however, scratch the surface, and there's some...

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