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"The Bird"
a production based on Anton Chekov's "The Seagull"

Produced by: One Year Lease

Sets: Sara C Walsh
Lights: Derek Wright
Clothes: Jessica Pabst

Performed by:
Babis Gousias
Emma Jackson

The show was developed during a residency in Northern Greece in March and April of 2008, and the piece made its US premiere at the Bushwick Starr on October 1st 2008.

The show was a stripped down, two actor version of "The Seagull" that explores the elegant symmetry of Chekhov's classic. Using the play as a prism to the performance became an intimate look at theater, love, and loss in the modern age.