A Mouthful of Birds

A Mouthful of Birds
Written byCaryl Churchill and David Lan
Date premiered1986
Place premiered United Kingdom
SubjectPossession, madness, and female violence
GenrePlay with dance

A Mouthful of Birds is a 1986 play with dance, written by Caryl Churchill and David Lan, with choreography by Ian Spink. Drawing its themes from The Bacchae of Euripides, it is a meditation on possession, madness and female violence.