Biting Point
Published on 8. May 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-0-571-39882-9 (ISBN)
Description
Look, you won't know me. But you will. I want you to know me, you see. I want you to know me in the way I know these roads around us, the roundabouts in surround sound, the bridges, the cut-throughs, the one-way systems, the water.
Supermarket driver John and property manager Anita spend their working days in Hull's endless traffic, trying to keep ahead of targets and ticking clocks. Driven to distraction by substitute groceries and dodgy plumbing, tensions flare when they collide on a busy roundabout.
Biting Point is about class, race and anger in contemporary Britain. It's about the communities we belong to, the pressures we're under, and how modern life can turn us into people we don't want to be.
Sid Sagar's play was produced by Middle Child and first performed at Fruit Market Multi-Storey Car Park, Hull, in May 2025.
Supermarket driver John and property manager Anita spend their working days in Hull's endless traffic, trying to keep ahead of targets and ticking clocks. Driven to distraction by substitute groceries and dodgy plumbing, tensions flare when they collide on a busy roundabout.
Biting Point is about class, race and anger in contemporary Britain. It's about the communities we belong to, the pressures we're under, and how modern life can turn us into people we don't want to be.
Sid Sagar's play was produced by Middle Child and first performed at Fruit Market Multi-Storey Car Park, Hull, in May 2025.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 129 mm
Width: 199 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
98 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-39882-9 (9780571398829)
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Sid Sagar is an actor, playwright and screenwriter from an Indian background. He grew up in England from the age of eight. He read History at the University of Bristol and trained on numerous writing programmes, run by Soho Theatre, the London Library, Hampstead Theatre, the Almeida Theatre and Channel 4. As an actor, he won an Eastern Eye Award for Best Actor for his performance in Kenneth Lonergan's The Starry Messenger in the West End, as well as an AudioFile Earphones Award for his narration of Salman Rushdie's Victory City. Other credits include Ballet Shoes (National Theatre), Cabaret (West End) and Slow Horses (Apple TV+). As a writer, his work includes Middle Men and John from Hemel (both BBC Radio 4). His first short film, Baked Beans, was produced by BFI NETWORK and was selected for festivals in the UK and internationally. He has been part of writers' rooms for Channel 4 and CBeebies and is developing a variety of projects for stage and screen.