Stupid F**king Bird
Event description
Kia ora e hoa, come and witness dollhouse's next production, the Aotearoa premiere of the award-winning 'Stupid F**king Bird' (SFB) by Aaron Posner! A contemporary adaptation of and response to Chekhov's 'The Seagull', SFB is about love and life - the agony of it all. It's funny, heartbreaking, and special.
Posner’s widely critically acclaimed work was originally produced by legendary theatre group Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co. in Washington DC in May 2013, where it won the Helen Hayes award for best new play. Subsequently produced all over the US to rave reviews and sold out houses, the Bird now lands here!
'There are many ways in which it is possible for theater to be good. Stupid F**king Bird is good in an obscenely large number of them.'
- Entertainment Central, Pittsburgh
'Throughout, Chekhov’s mournful themes arrive intact: unrequited love, the uncanny feeling that we’re spectators to our own lives, and the discomfiting awareness that art will always have the shapely structure that ordinary life lacks—and that we yearn for. We’re reminded that a well-lived life is the most artful fiction of them all.'
- The New Yorker
How much Chekhov is used and recycled by writers and theatre companies? Only marginally less than Shakespeare would be my guess until one mutters under one’s breath “not another stupid f’*íng Chekhov”. Then Aaron Posner gives us Stupid F**king Bird and we are glad glad glad a writer has the skill and understanding to take a classic text and reimagine it for a 21st century audience.
It deserves a standing ovation. It won’t get one. You will have to see it to work out why. And see it you must. It is stupidly f**king fabulous.'
- Theatre Now (Sydney)