Photo credit: Apollinaire Theatre
Presented by Apollinaire Theatre Company
By Aaron Posner
Adapted by Chekhov’s The Seagull
Directed by Danielle Fauteux Jacques
March 28th – April 26th, 2014
Chelsea, MA
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Review by Craig Idlebrook
(Chelsea) Merriam-Webster offers this definition of “mash-up”:
something created by combining elements from two or more sources: as
a : a piece of music created by digitally overlaying an instrumental track with a vocal track from a different recording
b : a movie or video having characters or situations from other sources
c : a Web service or application that integrates data and functionalities from various online sources
You’ll notice that the good ol’ M-W doesn’t include theater in its definition, which means Apollinaire Theatre’s staging of “Stupid Fucking Bird” kind of groundbreaking. Take a ponderous Russian classic, “The Seagull”, make it all meta and silly, and you have this imaginative and unconventional play. Mash-ups usually are 5 minutes long and viewed on YouTube; this play clocks in at a cool 2 hours and a half with a pair of intermissions. My friends, that’s a mash-up that shows some guts. Continue reading
