Presented by China Plate & Warwick Arts Centre

Bite Size Festival 2022

In partnership with Shoot Festival

The showcase for Midlands Theatre Making

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Programme Line Up
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Bite Size Festival 2022

This day-long festival on Saturday 30 April at Warwick Arts Centre offered up a jam-packed taster menu of new theatre from the Midlands, including short excerpts of new work, full-length shows and exclusive previews of pieces still in development. All presented by home-grown artists working across the region – from critically acclaimed, award-winning companies to fresh faced, emerging theatre-makers.

Including exclusive extracts of work commissioned through our sister festival First Bite, including Georgia Kelly’s Blood and Keiren Hamilton-Amos’s Pulled.

Bite Size Festival was presented in partnership with Shoot Festival’s Performance: In Bloom event, a showcase of Coventry and Warwickshire’s emerging talent taking place on 28 and 29 April 2022 at the Belgrade Theatre.

Commissioned by Midlands Arts Centre, Attenborough Arts Centre and In Good Company. Supported by Camden People’s Theatre.

Logo © Matthew Austin

Line Up

Saturday 30 April 2022 | Warwick Arts Centre

Session 1 – 10.45am

  • Is That A Yeti, Hetty? – Crow’s Nest
  • Roti Moon – Fishhouse Theatre and Upstairs at the Western

Session 2 – 12.30pm

  • Fatherhood – Altered Skin
  • Pulled – Keiren Hamilton-Amos
  • Blood – Georgia Kelly

Session 3 – 3pm

  • Major Labia – Major Labia
  • Forbidden Identity – Billy Read
  • No More Mr Nice Guy – Cal-I Jonel in association with Nouveau Riché

Session 4 – 5pm

  • Please Do Not Touch – Casey Bailey
  • 5 Years – Neal Pike
  • The Sex Party – Frankie Thompson

Session 5 – 7.45pm

  • Dead Cats – Proto-type Theater

Bite Size Festival 2022 was presented in partnership with Shoot Festival’s Performance: In Bloom event – a showcase of Coventry and Warwickshire’s emerging talent taking place on 28 and 29 April 2022 at the Belgrade Theatre.

Our Digital Session platformed some brilliant work made for online audiences, alongside digital translations of live work in development.

  • Curfew – Calico
  • The Tale of Tresses: Redress – Maral
  • Rapsody – Vision Production Company
  • The Next 10 Years – Callum Berridge
  • Humans Not Heroes: Boats On An Ocean – China Plate and Coventry University, written by Nick Walker
  • Humans Not Heroes: Thresholds – China Plate and Coventry University, written by Rochi Rampal

Gallery

A woman holding her hands above her head, dressed in a suit, wearing glasses.

Frankie Thompson © Arnim Friess

Two people dressed as cleaners looking in through the window.

Crow's Nest © Arnim Friess

A man looking away from the camera wearing glasses with a concern expression

Cal-I Jonel © Arnim Friess

Three people dancing on stage.

Billy Read © Arnim Friess

A man wearing a dressing gown, looking concerned with his phone in his hand.

Keiren Hamilton Amos © Arnim Friess

A woman sitting crossed leg on the floor with a roti balanced on her head.

Fishhouse Theatre & Upstairs at the Western © Arnim Friess

A man hunched over playing with a teddy bear

Altered Skin © Arnim Friess

Two women wearing dungarees holding their arm up with a peace sign.

Major Labia © Arnim Friess

A young man sitting on a bed looking away from the camera

Casey Bailey © Arnim Friess

Two women standing facing the audience.

Georgia Kelly © Arnim Friess

A man sitting at a school table, not looking directly at the camera.

Neal Pike © Arnim Friess

Two women sitting either end of a desk with a projection of an eye in the background.

Proto-type Theater © Arnim Friess

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For more information, please contact Kristina Hall

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