Terror Takes Flight: Malthouse Reimagines The Birds for a modern age
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Terror Takes Flight: Malthouse Reimagines The Birds for a modern age
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Phil speaks with Dr Sarah Austin, Senior Lecturer in Theatre, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, about a new theatrical production of The Birds, a vivid, thrilling and ghastly: new theatrical adaptation of The Birds which evokes climate disaster, terrorism and lockdown
Malthouse’s new production of The Birds is a thrillingly realised take on the 1952 short story by Daphne Du Maurier. Adapted by Louise Fox and directed by Matthew Lutton, this vivid realisation is a chilling treatise on fear and resilience in the face of an external threat.
Paula Arundell plays Tessa, a wife and mother whose family has recently undergone a seachange to a sleepy little coastal town. Tessa serves as both our narrator and key storyteller as the show unfolds, and Arundell embodies multiple other characters with precise vocal and physical shifts.
As the birds start to amass on the sleepy seaside hamlet, Tessa becomes increasingly concerned about their intentions.
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