A day-long programme “celebrating and promoting the best new work from the Midlands” is to be staged in January 2020 at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry.
Divided into six sessions, Bite Size Festival will comprise two full-length shows, Lewis Doherty’s Game of Thrones-style, one-man fantasy epic, BOAR, and the West Midlands première of Caroline Horton’s exploration of wanting to live and wanting to die, All of Me (The Possibility of Future Splendour).
The festival will also feature a mix of 20-minute shorts, works in progress and excerpts from home-grown artists. The works will explore themes from the environment, sex education, living with an incurable medical condition and what might happen if you accidentally steal 300 second-class stamps from a post office.
Bite Size will be presented by China Plate and Warwick Arts Centre. Paul Warwick, co-director of China Plate, said, “the Midlands is positively buzzing with exciting creativity right now and Bite Size is still the best opportunity to see a snapshot of what Midlands theatre-makers are up to in one place on one day. This year the more tickets you buy the cheaper they get.”
Bite Size Festival will run on Saturday 18 January. Tickets cost £36 for a day pass or £5.50 for an individual session. Further details are available at the Warwick Arts Centre web site.