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

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Also by David Lan:

Ghetto

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