The Birds

Disillusioned with life in wartime Athens, Pisthetairos enlists the help of the birds to found Cloudcuckooland: a new commonwealth in the sky that attracts both a flock of human opportunists and a delegation from the gods. Aristophanes’s classic comedy both satirizes humanity’s absurd desires and celebrates its dreams. Nikos Dinoysios directs The Birds, translated by Dudley Fitts.