MPLS (2012) - Angrier birds

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• article: Angrier birds
• author(s): William Randall Beard
• journal: MPLS (01/Feb/2012)
• issue: volume 40, issue 2, page 114
• journal ISSN: 0162-6655
• keywords: Dramatists, Motion pictures, Novellas, Theater, Daphne du Maurier, Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds (1963)

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Abstract

Fans of Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds might be surprised to discover that it's radically different from the Daphne du Maurier novella on which it's based. Irish playwright Conor McPherson's stage adaptation, opening at the Guthrie this month, is radically different from either of its predecessors. McPherson sets his play in the present, in an isolated 19th-century farmhouse, where a group of strangers seeks refuge from the birds. Where the story and the film are about man vs. nature, the play focuses on the interaction of individuals.