Theater Review: Shaking the Tree's he Brother and the Bird Is a Shadow Play of Family Dysfunction
by Portland Mercury
Portland Mercury— Shaking the Tree Theatre's latest production, The Brother and the Bird, adapts a short story by Alissa Nutting, which was based on the Brothers Grimm's "The Juniper Tree" into a tight 60-minute spring season play filled with tension, suspense, and stray rays of humor. Fairy tale adaptions are only as good as the people adapting them, but Shaking the Tree has boiled the bones of "The Brother and the Bird" into a visual feast. I disliked shadowplay before I saw Shaking the Tree do it, and I...
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