Wilbury Group to Open 2016 with STUPID F***ING BIRD

The Wilbury Theatre Group is proudly continues its 2015/16 season with the Rhode Island premiere of Stupid F-ing Bird (or, Stupid F#*%ing Bird), January 21-February 6, 2016. Written by acclaimed director and playwright Aaron Posner based on Anton Chekhov's masterpiece work, The Seagull, and directed by Mark Peckham, Stupid F-ing Bird is the smash hit play that The Washington Post describes as a "savvy, petulant blitz through The Seagull that's 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."

Stupid F-ing Bird runs January 21-February 6 at The Wilbury Theatre Group, 393 Broad Street, Providence RI. Tickets are $15-$25. Call 401-400-7100 or order online at thewilburygroup.org.

About Stupid F-ing Bird

An aspiring young director rampages against the art created by his mother's generation. A nubile young actress wrestles with an aging Hollywood star for the affections of a renowned novelist. 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 draw the famously subtextual inner thoughts of Chekhov's characters explicitly to the surface. Stupid F-ing Bird incites audiences to consider how art, love, and revolution fuel their own pursuit of happiness.

"Stupid F#*%ing Bird, like The Seagull, is filled with art, hope, love, and disappointment," says Wilbury Artistic Director Josh Short. "Posner's reimagining of this classic text takes an irreverent and unflinching look at these themes to challenge our modern audiences to ask themselves, as Chekhov did in his time, 'why are we all so miserable all of the time?' I'm excited to be back on stage with this incredible cast we've assembled, and thrilled to have Mark directing with us again (both for the first time since our 2011 production of Gruesome Playground Injuries), and looking forward to sharing this exciting new adaptation with our audiences. In short, it's going to be a great f#*%ing show."