Based, like Hitchcock's film, on the Daphne du Maurier short story, The Birds is a thrilling psychodrama about what happens when nature turns against humanity. A couple, thrown together by the birds' assault, find their delicate balance suddenly threatened not from the birds they are trying to keep out but from a young woman they let in. A powerfully relevant story of how we turn on each other when faced with an external, existential threat. By Conor McPherson (The Girl From The North Country, The Weir).