A collaboration production of
The Keegan Theatre and Solas Nua
Pig and Runt are ‘two 17-year-olds who share everything: birthday, language, worldview… and that moment when pop songs and life-changing orgasms flash by and last forever… Poignantly funny, full of sound and movement, this electric two-hander is phenomenal’ Sunday Times (Ireland). Disco Pigs opened in Cork; won the Best Fringe Production Award at the 1996 Dublin Festival and played at the Traverse Theatre for the ’97 Edinburgh Festival.
The Playwright
Enda Walsh is one of Ireland's most renowned and controversial playwrights. He is the writer-in-residence for Cork based theatre company, Corcadorca, and has written several plays for them, including Disco Pigs, which won both the Stewart Parker and George Devine Awards in 1997. Disco Pigs has been performed all over the world, and was also developed into a film directed by Kirsten Sheridan in 2001. Other works include Misterman, which debuted in Cork in 1999 with Walsh in the title role, and Bedbound, which took the 2000 Dublin Theatre Festival by storm and was revived at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival in 2001. The New Electric Ballroom, received its world premiere in September 2004 at the Munich Kammerspiele, and in late 2004, Fraternity was staged at the Zurich Schauspielhaus. In January 2005, The Small Things, opened a season entitled This Other England, in London, and this Summer will see the premiere of, A Pondlife, especially written for the Cork 2005 European City of Culture.
Press from the Original Production
· Best Play awards at the Dublin and Edinburgh Theatre Festivals
· Won the Stewart Parker Award and the George Devine Award, best new play awarded by The Royal Court Theatre, London
"Two 17-year-olds who share everything: birthday, language, worldview and that moment when pop songs and life-changing orgasms flash by and last forever. Poignantly funny, full of sound and movement, this electric two-hander is phenomenal"
Sunday Times (Ireland)
"The play resembles A Clockwork Orange rewritten as a Phil Spector song and recorded by The Fatima Mansions"
Financial Times
"A firecracker of a show. If you've seen it before, go again. If you haven't...storm the building for a ticket"
The List, Edinburgh Fringe
"The disturbance lasts after the house lights come up again. Something has happened!"
The Sunday Independent
