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Stupid Fucking Bird
Stupid Fucking Bird
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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
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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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Edmond Rostand, translated by Michael Hollinger, adapted by Michael Hollinger and Aaron Posner
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