“In Aaron Posner’s exquisitely clever adaptation of the play – in a production at Arden Theatre Company that can’t be beat – you get the laughs, too. Lots of them.”

Arden Theatre’s cofounder returns with kind-of Chekhovian ‘Bird’

(Posner) has a taste for redoing the classics, but (Stupid Fucking) Bird is a jumbled, highly personalized rewrite of Chekhov. It became a way for Posner to look at events in his own life (the birth of a daughter) and his surroundings (politics, his life as an artist) and spin Seagull into autobiography.

(Producing Artistic Director Terrence J.) Nolen says he was ” struck by his old friend’s deconstructionist view, one that captures Chekhov brilliantly, but is very much a new Posner work.”

—The Philadelphia Inquirer

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“Even if you have never seen The Seagull or pondered the meaning of performance art, Stupid Fucking Bird will captivate you with its unexpected insights into the human capacity for love, misery, and creative self expression. If you are a lover of Chekhov or a student of the theater it just might blow you away.”

—Talkin Broadway

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“The bird may be stupid, but this is one smart play.”