The Irish playwright Conor McPherson has spun any number of what might be dubbed existential ghost stories, including "The Weir," "Shining City" and "Port Authority." So it is not at all surprising that he decided to craft his own free-form adaptation of "The Birds," the chilling, densely feathered story first spun by Daphne du Maurier in a 1952 novella (set in Cornwall, England, in the wake of World War II) and Alfr…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:51PM on June 15, 2015