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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 for pleasant listening.Rebecca Willingham deftly directs her four actors: Ryan Kirby, Veronique Le, Aurora Penepacker, and Julio Cesar Gutierrez. ....

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