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,[1] with choreography by Ian Spink. Drawing its themes from The Bacchae of Euripides, it is a meditation on possession, madness and female violence.

  1. ^ Woodhead, Cameron (4 November 2011). "A Mouthful of Birds reviewed by Cameron Woodhead". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 21 July 2017.