Bleeding Chunks

Bleeding Chunks
In our first 2 years at the Brighton Festival we presented a total of 15 new plays as Bleeding Chunks.
Playwrights were given the opportunity to get valuable feedback on work in progress and our audiences were given a small insight into the process of producing new drama. The format proved to be hugely popular. The idea was to create a festival programme for New Writing that takes the essential heart of a play and presents it as a staged reading; giving the writer some valuable feedback on the development of their piece, and the audience the chance to experience a variety of tasty theatrical bites...
The plays were: 1999 Looking For Christian by Craig Vaughan, directed by Polly Irvin Marina High Project directed by Anita Parry and Peter Ellis Voice Prints by Nicola Burgess (soundscape piece) Six Inches of Travel by Josie Melia, directed By Anita Parry Time Won't Wait written and directed by Sarah Sansom Chicken Shit by Keith Kennedy, directed by Anita Parry Driving to Midnight by Shaun McCarthy, directed by Sally Knyvette Bunk by Paul Levy The Glamour Gene by Anna McGrail, directed by Polly Irvin Boy Band by Peter Morris, directed by Richard Crane Rosalind's Plumbing by Chris Taylor, directed by Polly Irvin. Jeremy Radvan gave a short lecture about Biomechanics and the performative possibilities... 2000 Small Attachments - puppetry and performance created by writer Louise Warren & performer Alex Martin Allegra by Polly Marshall, directed by Darren Tunstall Dreamland by Simon Cowell-Parker, directed by Chris Stagg Master classes with the directors of Fuzzy Logic by Anna McGrail and Adrian Reynolds - directed by Helena Uren and Luminescence by Darren Tunstall - directed by Roxanna Silbert.
Developing New Writing: In TAB 2000, Bunk by Paul Levy was performed as a full-length piece in a special performance directed by Lou Cope. From the 1999 Bleeding Chunks programme, TAB then commissioned Looking for Christian and Six Inches of Travel for the TAB 2000 festival as full-length pieces.