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Stupid Fucking Bird

Stupid Fucking Bird
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
Author: Aaron Posner
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 78
Pub. Date: 2016
Edition: Acting
ISBN-10: 0822232502
ISBN-13: 9780822232506
Cast Size: 3 female, 4 male

About the Play:

Stupid Fucking Bird is a full-length comedic drama by Aaron Posner. Chekhov's story of love, art, and a hapless bird gets a remarkably contemporary face lift in Aaron Posner's Stupid F#%*ing Bird. On the grounds of a country estate, a battle between young and old ensues in this heartbreaking, hilarious, sort-of-adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull.

Stupid Fucking Bird is about our longing to love and be loved. An aspiring young theatre director named Conrad struggles to get out from under the shadow of his mother Emma, a famous actress. Meanwhile, his young muse Nina falls for Emma's new lover, the famous author Doyle, and everyone discovers just how disappointing love, art, and growing up can be. In this irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov's The Seagull, Aaron Posner stages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, in search of the true meaning of it all. Original songs composed by James Sugg draw the famously subtextual inner thoughts of Chekhov's characters explicitly to the surface. Stupid F#%*ing Bird will tickle, tantalize, and incite you to consider how art, love, and revolution fuel your own pursuit of happiness.

Stupid Fucking Bird premiered in 2013 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC, where it won the Helen Hayes award for best new play. The critically acclaimed work enjoyed widespread acceptance among leading regional theatres, and has become a popular choice for college and community theatre productions.

Cast: 3 female, 4 male

What people say:

"Aaron Posner's savvy, petulant blitz through Anton Chekhov's The Seagull [is] less an adaptation of Chekhov's landmark drama than a funny, moving slugfest, a ripe mashup of mock and awe…sometimes it blows Chekhov up, and sometimes the play explodes with a genuinely Chekhovian release of emotion. The show is smart enough to have it both ways: It mines The Seagull for classical heft even while giving it the bird." — Washington Post

"Like the play that inspired it, this adaptation offers a unique glimpse at the state of the theatrical art form and more broadly, the difficult pursuit of art and creativity. Angsty, raw, and real, this play does not shy away from the hard, but well-discussed philosophical questions about art, reality, love and life and what it all means. Yet, it does so in a way that's likely to engage contemporary theatrically savvy audiences." — BroadwayWorld.com

"…an accessible and unfailingly delightful jaunt into misery (or maybe we should say compromised happiness)…It's absorbing in its every glance and revealing in its every sigh." — Washington City Paper

"Stupid Fucking Bird, like The Seagull before it, demands a realer theater…It is an act of historical importance to tear theater down in order to have it start anew. But it is an act of grace to challenge theater to become greater without tearing it down agull before it, demands." — DCTheatreScene.com

"Stupid Fucking Bird, Aaron Posner's splendid, irreverent adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull [is] a refreshing splash of cool water on dry, well-trod terrain… Stupid Fucking Bird is what you get from a writer who not only adores the material he's adapting, but understands it precisely." — DCist.com

About the Playwright:

Aaron Posner is an American playwright and theatre director. He was co-founder of the Arden Theatre Company in Philadelphia. He has directed over 250 productions at major regional theatre companies across the United States.

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