The Théâtre des Capucins shows Aaron Posner’s adaptation of Chekov’s “The Seagull”: “Stupid Fucking Bird” is a rejoicing spectacle, actualising the narrative about how to be an artist or an actor in the 21th century.
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Chekov’s “The Seagull” is one of those classic pieces you can hardly ignore, because it’s got everything a good play needs: tragical love stories (A loves B, who is desperately infatuated with C, that secretly longs for D, etcetera), a play-within-a-play, insane intergenerational relationships, drama and suicide in the end. So, it’s no wonder that more than a hundred years later the cry of the seabird still echoes and that the American playwright Aaron Posner wrote his own adaptation of the play in 2013 – a play that since then got good reviews and has been touring worldwide, and has now arrived in the grand-duchy. mehr lesen / lire plus
It’s all about observation: the structure of “Two Pigeons Perching on a Bench” is built around the diary of a pigeon’s day wandering and flying around the streets of Luxembourg-City. And of course – we never really doubted it – pigeons do have a sense of humour when describing the humans they see and their sometimes odd behaviour, as for example their obsession with their silvery screens they can’t stop looking at. 
