About the Play:

Bite the Hand is a full-length comedy by Mansel Robinson. Guns, drugs, booze, border patrols and dangerous women – just a normal road trip for two Saskatchewan writers. Bite the Hand is a satirical take on playwrights, critics, friendship, and moose.

Bite the Hand is about theatre critic Peter and playwright Steve attempting to drive across the country from Saskatchewan to Sudbury and some of the bumps they hit along the way. The uneasy friends both live in glass houses and are carrying armloads full of stones. Steve is still nursing anger and hurt over Peter's having panned his work, and Peter bristles at accusations he writes his reviews before even seeing the plays! Along the way the guys pick up an incredibly well-read fugitive named Sasha and her psychic friend Suki, who are as scary as they are sexy. Theatrical, hilarious, and horrifying, this play has everything: anti-American rants, pro-American rants; a rousing song, debates of the play's own merits, a car chase, romance, and unexpected violence. The work of one of Canada's most inventive and insightful playwrights at the top of his game.

Bite the Hand premiered in 2009 at Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon.

Cast: 2 female, 2 male

What people say:

"Caustic, rule-breaking, highly-inventive comedy... A roiling writer's cauldron of wit, righteous indignation, and audacious inspiration." — Saskatoon Star-Phoenix

About the Playwright:

Mansel Robinson is a Canadian playwright and fiction writer. He has written numerous plays which have been produced in Ottawa, Montreal, Kitchener, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, and Calgary. Robinson has been writer in residence at the Berton House in Dawson City, the University of Windsor, Regina Public Library, and the Surrey Public Library. He has also worked in a lumber mill, fought fires, ran a blast furnace, worked the rails, and done a lot of backstage work at theatres. A twenty-year resident of Saskatchewan, he now lives in a small cabin down-river from his hometown of Chapleau, in Northern Ontario.