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:

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

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Also by David Lan:

Ghetto

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