Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
I want to read the book!
All characters reduced
The Birds (stage version) (NHB Modern Plays) - cover

The Birds (stage version) (NHB Modern Plays)

Conor McPherson

Publisher: Nick Hern Books

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

A suspenseful, atmospheric adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's enthralling short story.
Mysterious masses of birds have begun to violently attack at high tide, driving strangers Nat and Diane to take refuge in an isolated, abandoned house by the sea and form a bond to survive their haunting new circumstance. With no electricity and scarce food, the tension is palpable and hope is waning.
Yet if two is company, three is a crowd, as the sudden arrival of a young woman with a mysterious nature of her own ruffles feathers in the house and quickly threatens to destroy their so-called sanctuary.
Conor McPherson's adaptation of The Birds premiered at the Gate Theatre, Dublin in September 2009.
'deliciously chilling... spring-loaded with tension' Irish Independent
'McPherson keeps us on the edge of our seat' Irish Times
Available since: 06/12/2014.
Print length: 60 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • Fifty Shades of November - 50 of the best poems about the month of November - cover

    Fifty Shades of November - 50 of...

    A E Housman, Trumbell Stickney,...

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    The eleventh month of the Gregorian year brings the change from Autumn into Winter.  Landscapes are scrubbed of colour and all their frills, the statued forms of trees are the grammar, the structure of her ways.  Days shorten, nights lengthen and for our classic poets there is work to be done. 
 
Across fifty poems our classic poets including Matthew Arnold, Thomas Hardy, Herman Melville, Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Alice Guerin Crist illuminate the month, the natural world and the human condition.  In their words our experiences are reshaped, our views are rethought and our place in the world made a little more sense of. 
 
 
 
1 - Fifty Shades of November - An Introduction 
2 - November by John Clare 
3 - November Findings, November 1862 by Janet Hamilton 
4 - November by William Cullen Bryant 
5 - To a Mouse by Robert Burns 
6 - To a Robin in November by William Wilfred Campbell 
7 - The TWA Corbies by Anonymous 
8 - Bird's Nests by Edward Thomas 
9 - We Plough the Fields and Scatter by Mattias Claudius 
10 - A Hymn on the Seasons (An Extract) by James Thomson 
11 - A Shropshire Lad XXVII - Is My Team Ploughing by A E Housman 
12 - At Day Close in November by Thomas Hardy 
13 - A November Night by Sara Teasdale 
14 - In November by Archibald Lampman 
15 - Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rossetti 
16 - Autumn Song by Katherine Mansfield 
17 - November Song by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 
18 - Love in Autumn by Sara Teasdale 
19 - The Wind's Lament by John Morris-Jones 
20 - By the Hearth by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 
21 - A Calender of Sonnets - November by Helen Hunt Jackson 
22 - November Blind by Phillip Henry Savage 
23 - In This Fog by Daniel Sheehan 
24 - November by Thomas Hood 
25 - Among the Rocks by Robert Browning 
26 - November by John Payne 
27 - Mild the Mist Upon the Hill by Emily Bronte 
28 - The Storm by George Herbert 
29 - Pray To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David Thoreau 
30 - November by Amy Lowell 
31 - Frost At Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
32 - Dupont's Round Fight (November 1861) by Herman Melville 
33 - A Thanksgiving Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
34 - In November by Phillip Henry Savage 
35 - November Days in Ireland by Alice Guerin Crist 
36 - November 1806 by William Wordsworth 
37 - A Shropshire Lad XXXVIII - The Winds Out of the West Land Blow by A E Housman 
38 - November 1847 by Henry Alford 
39 - Sonnet 73 - That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold by William Shakespeare 
40 - The Going of the Battery (Wives Lament November the 2nd 1899) by Thomas Hardy 
41 - The Melancholy Year is Dead with Rain by Trumbell Stickney 
42 - A November Note by Alfred Austin 
43 - November by Lucy Hamilton Hooper 
44 - November 1813 by William Wordsworth 
45 - A Thought on Death, November 1814 by Anna Laetitia Barbauld 
46 - On the Death of Princess Borghese, at Rome, November 1840 by Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton 
47 - Paris. November the 11th, 1918 by Mary Wedderburn Cannan 
48 - In Memoriam by Ewart Alan Mackintosh (Killed in Action 21st November 1917, Aged 24) 
49 - November by John Keble 
50 - For the Fallen by Lawrence Binyon 
51 - Rugby Chapel, November 1857 by Matthew Arnold
    Show book
  • Short Story Press Presents Love Shackles - cover

    Short Story Press Presents Love...

    Short Story Press, Walter Price

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    One of the most miserable and lonely places in the world is in a prison cell. The reason not being because you are locked away in a space the size of closet, away from society but because you have so much time to think. In the outside world you have resources to help make decisions and can move around to see for yourself when making choices. Being locked away physically also has the upmost mental effect on even a stable mind. 
One of the hardest decisions is figuring out exactly what path you will take once released from prison. This is vital because essentially the release the release date is the first day of the rest of your new life. The main character must make this decision but has to use his heart to guide him. 
Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.
    Show book
  • Goblin Market and Other Poems - cover

    Goblin Market and Other Poems

    Christina Rossetti

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) is British writer Christina Rossetti's first book of poetry. The title poem is her most famous work: a creepy and sensual tale of two sisters' temptation to eat forbidden fruits. The poems explore themes of death, faith, isolation, and love, with a section of devotional pieces at the end. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)
    Show book
  • Beowulf: A New Translation - cover

    Beowulf: A New Translation

    Maria Dahvana Headley

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    "Narrator JD Jackson addresses his listener as "bro" in this decidedly contemporary retelling of the classic saga...His brilliant performance captures all the artistry, wit, and immediacy of this fresh translation, and breathes new life into what for most has been a literary fossil." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner      A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere WifeNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf—and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world—there is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley, which brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English, recontextualizing the binary narrative of monsters and heroes into a tale in which the two categories often entwine, justice is rarely served, and dragons live among us.A man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. The familiar elements of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender, genre, and history—Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment, powerful men seeking to become more powerful, and one woman seeking justice for her child, but this version brings new context to an old story. While crafting her contemporary adaptation of Beowulf, Headley unearthed significant shifts lost over centuries of translation.   A Macmillan Audio production from MCD x FSG Originals  "Brash and belligerent, lunatic and invigorating, with passages of  sublime poetry punctuated by obscenities and social-media shorthand." --Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker"The author of the crazy-cool Beowulf-inspired novel The Mere Wife tackles the Old English epic poem with a fierce new feminist translation that radically recontextualizes the tale."--Barbara VanDenburgh, USA Today
    Show book
  • The Libertine (NHB Modern Plays) - 2016 edition - cover

    The Libertine (NHB Modern Plays)...

    Stephen Jeffreys

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    'I am up for it. All the time. That's not a boast. Or an opinion. It is bone-hard medical fact.'
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Charismatic poet, playwright and rake with a legendary appetite for excess. Yet when a chance encounter with an actress at the Playhouse sends him reeling, he is forced to reconsider everything he thinks and feels.
With all the wit, flair and bawdiness of a Restoration comedy, Stephen Jeffreys' brilliant play is an incisive critique of life in an age of excess.
Originally performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1994, The Libertine has been staged around the world, was adapted for radio, and became a film. This edition of the play was published alongside the 2016 production at the Theatre Royal Bath and Theatre Royal Haymarket, directed by Terry Johnson and starring Dominic Cooper as Wilmot.
    Show book
  • Precious Sons - cover

    Precious Sons

    George Furth

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Judith Ivey recreates her critically acclaimed Broadway performance as a tough, eccentric mother from Chicago's South Side. When she squares off against her husband over the fate of their "precious sons," shattering family secrets come to light. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Barry Cullison, Chad Hutchison, Judith Ivey, Fred Savage and Judy Unger.
    Show book