Sort of adapted from THE SEAGULL by Anton Chekhov
by Aaron Posner
directed by Culley Guest Artist Brendan Hughes
Original music by James Sugg
Performs: November 21-23 at 7:30pm and November 24 at 2:00pm
If you hate Chekhov, you'll love Stupid F#@%ing Bird. If you love Chekhov, it will thrill you. This play is a cage-match between the sacred and the profane. This play slaps “irreverence” onto the table and mainlines Monster Energy Blood into its throat. Stupid F#@%ing Bird is fresh, slangy, flippant, audacious, ungodly, insolent, funny as f#@k, contemptuous, pissed off at art itself, and under clear and present attack by its own protagonist. The story pits two generations against one another... the older: full of ungrateful, opportunity-rich, laissez-faire over-achievers; and the younger: full of opportunity-starved, passionate and doomed meaning-hunters. Dev loves Mash who loves Con who loves Nina who loves Trig who leads Emma on, all while Sorn watches in bemused, gin-soaked ennui. What do you do when the sheer terror of living rips a hole in you and your soul falls out? Will the very art of theater survive a single night's performance of this madness? This play is NOT your parents’ Seagull. This play is the 21st century in your face.
Listen to director Brendan Hughes talk about his directing experience and show preparation for Stupid F#@%ing Bird.
