The CAGEBIRDS A Play David Campton David Campton was born in Leicester and educated at Wyggeston Grammar School.

He served in the Royal Air Force during the War and later became a member of the Board of Management of the Scarborough Theatre Trust. He was an actor with Stephen Josephs Theatre in the Round at Scarborough and on tour in the period 1957-63. His plays are almost too numerous to list. They range, in his own words, from domestic thcomedy, through costume melodrama to comedy of menace. Some of his more well-known plays include The Laboratory (1955), The Lunatic View (1960), Frankenstein (1959), Mutalis Mutandis (1960), Soldier from the War Returning (1960), Funeral Dance (1960), Where Have all the Ghosts Gone? (1965), Wonderchick (1970) and The Life and Death of Almost Everbody (1970). The Cagebirds is a play for eight women. Birds in a cage live, each totally absorbed in her own particular characteristics. When the Wild One is introduced into their midst by the Mistress in charge of them, she endeavours to persuade them to break out from their self-imposed dependence and imprisonment into the wider world outside but her efforts result only in her own destruction at their hands.