When youth takes wing - Oak Park
Oak Park Festival Theater has mounted a strong, energetic production of Beth Hyland's Seagulls, an indie-rock musical adaptation of Anton Chekhov's 1895 Russian play. The plot now focuses on four college students who are about to compete in a battle of the bands. Love, of course, overlaps. The production is performed at the 1897 Pleasant Home, the play’s historical contemporary, located at Pleasant & Home.Seagulls are free and supposedly fearless. So are the young characters in this play, but perhaps not completely. The actors each play instruments and sing. The score makes fo...