The Birds at Cabrillo Playhouse - An article from Culture OC

When the birds attack, the real danger isn’t outside – it’s inside the house.

By Anne Reid

In “The Birds,” a stage adaptation of the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film, strangers take refuge from a relentless, unexplained wave of bird attacks. But as the threat closes in, the play shifts its focus from external horror to something more unsettling: what happens when fear begins to fracture the people forced to survive together.

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Adapted by Conor McPherson from Daphne du Maurier’s short story, the production opens this spring at Cabrillo Playhouse, offering a stripped-down, psychological take on a story audiences think they already know. Rather than relying on spectacle, the production leans into tension, atmosphere and READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE AT CULTURE OC\

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