When:
4/27/2012 - 5/13/2012
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Where:

Old Bank District Theatre
136 W 4th St.
Los Angeles (downtown), CA 90013

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BITES

BITES the play by Kay Adshead

BITES first premiered world-wide in London in 2005. Following its debut in the UK, director Elena Vannoni premiered the play in Rome and Berlin in 2008; she is now about to present it for the first time to the American audience in collaboration with Kay Adshead’s company, Mama Quilla.

Premiere: April 27
Regular shows: April 28-29, May 3-6, and May 10-13, Los Angeles, 2012.

Old Bank District Space
136 West 4th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013 (downtown)

Director ELENA VANNONI
Producer GEMMA SONEGO
Art Director SANDRA MONTAGNA
Technical Director/Sound Engineer LUIGI PULCINI

www.bitestheplay.com
info@bitestheplay.com
Ph 213 308 8896

This very topical political text by British author Kay Adshead is served up in the form of a seven-course meal, using a very poetical and striking language that makes it edible but not exactly ‘digestible’.
Each dish narrates a barbarous, inhumane story. The simplicity of the lyric poetry mixed with pungent sarcasm unifies the seven courses into one big feast. The actors, each one playing several roles, start off on the floor of a restaurant. The restaurant itself is a haunted setting, a place in ruins reminiscent of an already-devoured banquet, an almost lunar landscape consisting of decades upon decades of decomposing leftovers.

The play is very surreal and poetic, depicting the miseries of life as a ‘minority’ and the human rights issues they raise. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic restaurant, where the actors play the roles of hostesses, chefs, and waiters. The meal consists of seven courses, each one telling a story from Afghanistan to Texas, passing through Guantanamo.
The setting is Brecht-ish: the actors never leave the scene and the stage is created by the chairs and the tables of the restaurant. The roles change from course to course, but there is a thin, connecting line linking all of the episodes and characters together.

Where:

Old Bank District Theatre
136 W 4th St.
Los Angeles (downtown), CA 90013
4/27/2012 - 5/13/2012
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Event Website

MAP