A Mouthful of Birds

Cast: 4f 3m doubling (large cast possible)

Staging: Minimal requirements

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Published in volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Three
First Staged:
Birmingham Repertory Theatre & Royal Court Theatre, 1986

A Mouthful of Birds

By Caryl Churchill and David Lan
Published in volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Three

A collaboratively written theatre piece by Caryl Churchill and David Lan, combining text and dance to explore the nature of madness, possession and violence.

A Mouthful of Birds was inspired by Euripides' Bacchae, and explores modern experiences of 'possession, violence and other states where people feel beside themselves' - Caryl Churchill, from her introduction to the published volume.

The play was first performed in association with Joint Stock Theatre Company at Birmingham Repertory Theatre in September 1986 and opened at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in November 1986.

Press Quotes

'A dramatist who must surely be amongst the best half-dozen now writing'

The Times

Cast: 4f 3m doubling (large cast possible)

Staging:Minimal requirements

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Published in volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Three

Also by Caryl Churchill:

Caryl Churchill Plays: Three
Caryl Churchill Plays: Four
A Dream Play
Seven Jewish Children
Here We Go
Cloud Nine
Far Away
Seagulls
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire
Pigs and Dogs
A Number
The After-Dinner Joke
Thyestes
Escaped Alone
Mad Forest
Lives of the Great Poisoners
The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution
Icecream
Traps
Blue Heart
This is a Chair
Lovesick
Beautiful Eyes
Hot Fudge
Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?
Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp.
Caryl Churchill: Shorts
Tickets are Now On Sale
The Skriker
Ding Dong the Wicked
Three Short Plays
What If If Only
Bliss
Hotel
Schreber's Nervous Illness
Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen
Caryl Churchill Plays: Five
War and Peace Gaza Piece
Abortive
Three More Sleepless Nights
Air
Love and Information
The Judge's Wife

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Also by David Lan:

Ghetto

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