Disco
Pigs by Enda Walsh
Directed
by Eric Lucas
Featuring: Linda Murray & Dan Brick
a
Solas Nua production in association with The
Keegan Theatre and
their production of The
Beauty Queen of Leenane
The
Director & Cast
Eric Lucas has directed primarily for The Keegan Theatre of which he is
an Artistic Associate and co-founder. He directed their first show, Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof, in 1997. Other shows include: Hamlet, Fool for Love,
The Walk, Romeo & Juliet, A Lie of the Mind, Tattoo Sky (which he
also wrote), and the upcoming, A Street Car Named Desire, which will open
this fall in Galway, and tour numerous cities in Ireland and N. Ireland.
For Disco Pigs Eric will be directing two of his cast-mates from earlier
this year when Eric appeared in Scena Theatre's production of The Lonesome
West with Linda Murray (Runt) and Dan Brick (Pig). Disco Pigs will mark
Linda and Dan’s third onstage collaboration. They were first paired
together in Scena Theatre's 2004 production of Belgrade Trilogy, with
an onstage chemistry that the City Paper's Trey Graham called "splendidly
subtle, giddy, sweet fun, and so real."
The
Playwright
Enda Walsh is one of Ireland's most renowned 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 and was subsequently performed all over the
world. Other works include Misterman, Bedbound, which took the 2000 Dublin
Theatre Festival by storm and The Small Things. This summer will see the
premiere of A Pondlife, especially written for the Cork 2005 European
City of Culture.
Downloads:
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Sheet (PDF)
Press Release (PDF)
Sunday
through Wednesday
June 28th - July 27th
Sundays at 7pm; Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday at 8pm; No Show on the 4th
of July; Previews June 26 at 7pm and June 27 at 8pm
Tickets:
$17.50
Students & Seniors: $13.50
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here to purchase tickets online
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The
Play
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 is set in Cork, and the language of the play reflects the unique
melodies and inflections of speech native to that region. However, Pig
and Runt’s dialogue goes beyond that – they have a childlike
secret language of their own creation that insulates them from the outside
world. Add these two linguistic strands to a fierce physicality and the
play becomes a fabulous discordant symphony that is less to be interpreted
by the audience than it is to be internalized. For the key with Disco
Pigs is not to struggle with comprehension, but to allow the color of
the language to evoke images and emotions. The play originally opened
in Cork; won the Best Fringe Production Award at the 1996 Dublin Festival
and played the 1997 Edinburgh Festival. Since then it has been translated
into 12 languages and become an international smash hit.
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.
Awards 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
Press from the Original Production:
"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
