David Hockney (b. 1937)

Ubu Roi was the first of the two things that I've designed for the stage... I was asked by the director of Ubu Roi, If I'd design it. I knew Alfred Jarry a little bit; I'd even read the play before, but I didn't really remember too much about it. So I agreed to do it when I read it again. You can invent lots of things because Jarry gives lots of instructions: Don't bother about scenery, just put a sign up saying 'Polish Army'; and that really appealed to me. And some of the sets are just like that.
(Hockney quoted in 'DAVID HOCKNEY by David Hockney', Thames and Hudson, London, 1976, p103).