The play retains a great deal of its ancestor's scatology, opening, for example, with the word "Pschitt!",Read "Shit!" (Taylor, 2007, p. 1) whose French equivalent, "Merdre!", invoked a riot at Jarry's premier in 1896. "'Ubu and the Truth Commission' dramatizes the politics of betrayal so graphically," opined Segal, "that it eminently deserves its adults-only designation."
