"Stupid F##king Bird"
By Aaron Posner
Sort of adapted from "The Seagull" by Anton Chekhov
Directed by David R. Gammons

Feb. 25-28, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
March 1, 2025 at 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Squires Studio Theatre
A part of our theatre season of 'Friends, Foes, and Family'

Read: This play is not your grandma's Chekhov

Aaron Posner’s hilarious and heartbreaking Stupid F##king Bird takes Chekhov’s classic comedy of broken dreams and thwarted love The Seagull and lovingly turns it inside-out. An aspiring young writer-director and his fame-fueled muse, an aging Hollywood star and her notorious novelist lover, and a mopey ukulele-playing fangirl who always wears black all seek emotional refuge and creative revolution on the shores of a mythical lake.  The clash of familial obligation, artistic vision, and romantic aspiration finds fresh and foul-mouthed form in this provocative meta-theatrical romp.

“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.

“…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.