The Biting School

The Biting School The Biting School is a company of brothers Arash and Aryo Khakpour with backgrounds in dance and theatre.

We had an incredible time sharing this work with you and are still buzzing from it's reception! “It was very dynamic!!! ...
05/27/2026

We had an incredible time sharing this work with you and are still buzzing from it's reception!

“It was very dynamic!!! Brilliant orchestration. Tight ex*****on. Extremely compelling.” - Raina von Waldenburg

Katie Voravong David Bloom Tara Cheyenne Performance Kate Franklin Aryo Khakpour Tim Carlson

The reviews are in! “Bravo on a fantastic show!! Real enjoyed what I would describe as a playfully anarchist, meditation...
05/27/2026

The reviews are in!

“Bravo on a fantastic show!! Real enjoyed what I would describe as a playfully anarchist, meditation on the rituals of the theatre and meaning of spectatorship.” - June Fukumura

A huge thank you from all of us to everyone who came to see the show. We loved being able to play and share this work with you 🙏

Kate Franklin David Bloom Tara Cheyenne Performance Aryo Khakpour Katie Voravong Tim Carlson Tyrant Studios

Offending the Audience by Peter Handke opens TONIGHT! Presented by The Biting School Theatre Co-produced by battery oper...
05/21/2026

Offending the Audience by Peter Handke opens TONIGHT!

Presented by The Biting School Theatre
Co-produced by battery opera

📍Tyrant Studios
📆 May 20-24 (limited tickets available!)

Speakers: Kate Franklin, Katie Voravong, David Bloom, Tara Cheyenne Performance
Directed by Aryo Khakpour
Costume Designer: elika mojtabaei
Producer: Tim Carlson
📸 : Alger Liang

🎟️ https://www.bitingschool.com/offending-the-audience-2026

05/20/2026

🔥 Hot Takes with Aryo 🔥

Offending the audience is opening TOMORROW!

📆
Preview: Wed, May 20 — 7:30pm
Opening: Thurs, May 21 — 7:30pm
Evening shows: Fri–Sun, May 22–24 — 7:30pm
Matinee: Sun, May 24 — 4pm

📍Tyrant Studios
🎟️https://www.bitingschool.com/offending-the-audience-2026

05/19/2026

🔥 Hot takes with Kate 🔥

How Kate sees the show:
in a word: real
in a shape: a record
in a texture: slippery

Come see what it's all about, Offending the Audience opens in TWO DAYS. Get your tickets at the 🔗 in bio.

05/19/2026

📆SHOW DATES & TIMES:
Preview: Wed, May 20 — 7:30pm
Opening: Thurs, May 21 — 7:30pm
Evening shows: Fri–Sun, May 22–24 — 7:30pm
Matinee: Sun, May 24 — 4pm

📍LOCATION: Tyrant Studios [above the historic Penthouse Nightclub], 1019 Seymour St., Vancouver (Note: with three flights of stairs and no lift, the venue is not fully accessible.)

Speakers: David Bloom , Kate Franklin , Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg (Tara Cheyenne Performance) and Katie Voravong

🎟️ https://www.bitingschool.com/offending-the-audience-2026

Aryo's conversation with STIR about Peter Handke, jazz, listening, desire, and why he still believes in the intimacy of ...
05/19/2026

Aryo's conversation with STIR about Peter Handke, jazz, listening, desire, and why he still believes in the intimacy of live theatre.

Offending the Audience
📆 May 20-24
📍Tyrant Studios

Interview by John Lucas for STIR.
Ensemble photo by

Tickets here: https://www.bitingschool.com/offending-the-audience-2026

05/16/2026

Get your tickets because this show is filling up fast, and once those spots are gone, they're gone.

See you there.

📆 May 20 - 24
📍 Tyrant Studios (Tyrant Studios )
🎟️ https://www.bitingschool.com/offending-the-audience-2026

Featuring:
David Bloom Kate Franklin Tara Cheyenne Performance & Katie Voravong

✨Team Feature ✨Tim Carlson (producer) is a theatre maker, writer and performing arts producer/consultant. He co-founded ...
05/15/2026

✨Team Feature ✨

Tim Carlson (producer) is a theatre maker, writer and performing arts producer/consultant. He co-founded Theatre Conspiracy (1995) and served as Artistic Producer from 2008-2022. He led the creation of Foreign Radical, which toured nationally in English and French, and the UK (Edinburgh Fringe First Award 2017; published in Canadian Theatre Review 2018). He has written over a dozen plays, including: Victim Impact (The Cultch, 2018); Extraction (The Cultch, 2013); and Omniscience (Vancouver, Berlin, Lisbon and Chicago; Talonbooks, 2007). His fiction has been published in subTerrean and Prairie Fire. The poster for Offending the Audience is a project under his new label: feral i.d.

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