2005 · Past productionsPublished

Bites

A sequence of short pieces examining political violence, complicity and the body politic in the post-9/11 decade.

Bush Theatre, London

Credits

Writer
Kay Adshead
Producer
Mama Quilla Productions

Produced by Mama Quilla Productions at the Bush Theatre in 2005 and subsequently published by Oberon Books.

Seven courses, one meal

Moving from the biggest democracy on the planet to the newest, Bites takes us back to Afghanistan via Texas. In the last diner at the end of a world ravaged by war, a menu of love, death and revenge is served by the hired help. Seven courses make for a poetic feast of universal tales looking back to the forgotten war and forward to a nightmarish future.

Press

“Imaginative, fluent, funny and hideous ... a world in which the relationships between the characters are vicious and cannibalistic, and people are all so much meat.”

Evening Standard

International productions

  • Morsi/Bisse (Bites). Translated by Andrea Peghinelli (Italian) and Katharina Schneider (German). Directed by Elena Vannoni for Teatraficio.

Published by Oberon Books, London