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.

Dionysos, a dancer, watches the action invisibly, and his kiss causes each episode's central transformation.

At the play's end, the characters return to give epilogues narrating how their stories continued.

Dance sequences are at the center of the episodes involving the pig and his lover, the schizophrenic and her hallucinated tormentor, and the serial killer.