knizer<p><a href="https://toot.boston/tags/BostonWeekend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BostonWeekend</span></a> 29/x EDIT jk, i went here, instead! I've got guests in town this weekend & this is extremely my jam, but not theirs, please go, its weird theatre, near home, and free:</p><p>Sun <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/THEATRE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>THEATRE</span></a>: <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/AncientGreece" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AncientGreece</span></a> x <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/Hitchcock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hitchcock</span></a> x <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/60sRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>60sRock</span></a> - “Attack of the Byrds! a verse play by Gary Duehr adapted from “The Birds” by Aristophanes, will be presented as a reading on Sunday, August 10, from 3-4:30.<br>The reading is free and open to the public. The reading features original songs by Jane Burgess Harcourt, sung by Suzanne Boucher and accompanied by Peter Hoffman on guitar. This version mashes up the classic <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/Greek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greek</span></a> comedy with “The <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Birds</span></a>” by Hitchcock and songs inspired by the ’60s band the <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/Byrds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Byrds</span></a>. In rhymed <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/tetrameter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tetrameter</span></a> couplets, the brisk verse punches up its wordplay. This adaptation uses the masks and puppets of a traveling theater troupe to tell the fantasy infused with political satire.” <a href="https://artsathearmory.org/events/attack-of-the-byrds/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">artsathearmory.org/events/atta</span><span class="invisible">ck-of-the-byrds/</span></a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/Aristophanes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aristophanes</span></a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/AncientGreek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AncientGreek</span></a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/ClassicalStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassicalStudies</span></a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/Comedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Comedy</span></a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/BostonTheatre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BostonTheatre</span></a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/TheBirds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheBirds</span></a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/TheByrds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheByrds</span></a><br><a href="https://toot.boston/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boston</span></a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/fringe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fringe</span></a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/Weird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Weird</span></a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/Puppets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Puppets</span></a></p>