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The Birds
 

Belvoir audiences are invited to immerse themselves in a theatrical feast of the imagination as Paula Arundell (Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Angels in America, Sonia Friedman Productions’ Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) goes head to head with the wild in the Sydney premiere of Louise Fox’s adaptation of The Birds, from 16th May to 7th June.

Daphne du Maurier’s 1952 gothic horror story captured the paranoia and tension of the Cold War and inspired an immortal Hitchcock film. Now, a new adaptation brings this classic to the stage, a version feverish and suspenseful, for a new age, with new anxieties.

Nature isn’t behaving. The weather is doing strange things, the sea and sky sound different, and things that were once innocent, benign, harmless, are taking on dark and alarming aspects.

From a remote farmhouse one family sounds the warning, but when the threat is unimaginable, and the world seems to be about to change forever, survival is just the first step…

An ever-relevant ecological horror story, this bold one-woman adaptation is a ‘symphony of dread’ (The Guardian) not to be missed.

 

Event details

Venue: Upstairs Theatre, Belvoir St Theatre
Bookings: https://belvoir.com.au/productions/the-birds/
Start Date: Tuesday 02 June 2026

 

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