A SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. TITLE
Bite Me
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 1m
When two teens – a privileged white boy and an overachieving Black girl – find themselves together in a storage closet, the heat soon boils over. Bite Me explores the drama (and trauma) of trying to fit in at high school, and the unfinished business that lingers over a decade later.
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Cast Size
1w, 1m -
Duration
90 minutes -
Target Audience
Adult
Details
Summary
History
Cast Attributes
Performing Groups
- Time Period New Millennium/21st Century
- Setting A storage closet at a suburban public high school. 2004 & 2015.
- Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
- Additional Features No Intermission
- Duration 90 minutes
- Cautions
- Alcohol
- Strong Language
- Mild Adult Themes
- Smoking
Media
“A brutally honest two-hander about adolescence and its aftermath.” – Lighting & Sound America
“An engaging, thought-provoking story of two teens who escape from the anarchy of their youth and find success on their terms, but not without scars... Pipes has written an excellent play; she draws the disparate socio-economic and racial lines between Nathan and Melody with a fine pen. The arc and landscape of their friendship and its ultimate struggle is carefully wrought and effective.” – Theater Scene
“In Bite Me, by the playwright Eliana Pipes, the reasons a studious girl can’t afford to slip up while her crush has the privilege to slack off hum beneath their budding friendship like the drone of a fluorescent bulb... Pipes is also interested in how race, class and gender can play a role in determining who needs to hustle for the opportunities that others freely squander.” – The New York Times
“Pipes is a tough, unsentimental reporter of the details – Adderall, alienation, bullying, whiskey, cigarettes and self-harm – of being young and troubled in the early 2000s... [she] carefully lays a snare that entangles her protagonists in a web of need and grievance from which there may be no escape.” – Lighting & Sound America
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £55 per performance plus VAT when applicable.
Authors
Eliana Pipes
Eliana Pipes is a writer, filmmaker and performer. Her plays include Dream Hou$e (world premiere co-production with the Alliance Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre and Baltimore Center Stage), Bite Me (South Coast Repertory Pacific Playwright’s Festival, NNPN National New Play Showc ...