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SF Playhouse's Stupid Bird f##king soars by Chad Jones

In Aaron Posner's Stupid Fucking Bird, an energizing riff on Chekhov's The Seagull, a playwright laments that what he's written is just another play where nothing real happens. You can't really say the same thing about Posner's play. Bird doesn't change the world, as the fictional playwright at one point says that theater should aim to do, but it does rattle the theatrical cage and clears away some musty clouds that…

SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:59PM on March 22, 2015

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