Theater Review: Shaking the Tree's Shadow Play of Family Dysfunction

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Theater Review: Shaking the Tree's Shadow Play of Family Dysfunction

Shaking the Tree Theatre's latest production, The Boy 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.  I disliked shadowplay before I saw Shaking the Tree do it, and I think it's because I've never seen it done well before. by Suzette Smith On a list of heinous crimes, cannibalism and …