Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ubu Roi

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Reason: Obviously, this one has to go on encyclopedic value more than art quality, but this is the programme, created by the author, for the incredibly influential work Ubu Roi. As such, I think EV quite outweighs the fact that it's a very weird image, although if you've seen the costumes, or know a bit about the play, you'd know it's not as weird as you'd think. ...Or, at least, it's appropriately weird.
Articles in which this image appears: Ubu Roi
FP category for this image: WP:FP/THEATRE
Creator: Alfred Jarry, restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.9% of all FPs} 04:43, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Geoffroi 06:39, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:46, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Were I already entitled to vote I would definitely rally for "support". I haven't had the chance to see a performance, but the play is reknown as a precursor to the fantastic world of the absurd theatre. The première programme sheet, albeit composed in a strange but befitting, squiggly calligraphy, thus possesses a true encyclopedic value. Compare e.g. this election campaign poster from the turn of the century (1905). -- Franz van Duns (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:55, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – Ugly. – Sca (talk) 12:54, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- @Sca: ...which does suit the play, to be fair. It's a weird play. Said at the start, though: This was never passing on aesthetics, it's one that has to survive on unique EV. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.9% of all FPs} 15:36, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support. MER-C 16:44, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Of a piece with the play and I think sharing in its EV. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:12, 29 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Programme for the première of Ubu Roi.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:18, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]