Performed: Fall 2013
Director: Adrian Giurgea
This 1986 play by Caryl Churchill and David Lan explores a series of seemingly ordinary characters, each of whom experiences an “undefended” day, when the body is possessed by spirit, addiction, love, or desire. Like Euripides’ Bacchae (on which A Mouthful of Birds is based), violent and unexpected transformations reverse conventional understandings of gender and sexuality, leading some characters to destruction and others to fruitful — but painful — moments of self-discovery.
