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Fri 10 Oct 2009The Birds
Gate Theatre, Dublin Until Nov 21 8pm €27-€35 01-8744045
In 1952, Daphne du Maurier wrote a chilling and ambiguous short story in which a Cornish farmhand and his family are terrorised by seagulls, before Britain itself is besieged by birds. In 1963, Alfred Hitchcock depicted another community facing avian attack in northern California in a film adaptation just as chilling, but whose medium made things infinitely more literal – audiences departing the premiere were assailed by amplified bird shrieks.
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