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| Disco Pigs | |
| By Enda Walsh | |
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Thu 30th March at 8:00pm |
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Set in 1997 Cork, Disco Pigs is the story of Pig and Runt, as Darren and Sinead have nick named each other. Inseparable since they were born seconds apart in the same hospital. They are as one, needing no one else, they reign over their own world. They create their own language (part invention part baby talk) and apply their own rules as they carve their way through Cork in their reckless pursuit of pleasure. But as the violence escalates their world becomes increasingly fragile, insular and dangerous. On the eve of their 17th birthday the fabric of their world begins to disintegrate. Runt has begun to see that there might be more to life, but Pig's unpredictable nature, unable to contemplate the loss of Runt begins to spiral out of control in a trail of violence and destruction. The inseparable are about to separate. |
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| Tickets: £8, Concs£6 | Professional |
Original production of Disco Pigs was staged in Cork, Ireland. It won the Best Production award at the 1996 Dublin Theatre Festival and was a huge hit at the 1997 Edinburgh Fringe Festival winning a fringe first. It has played to international acclaim in America, Britain, France, Germany, Australia and Canada and has since been made into a film of the same title.
Pure Theatre is newly formed by Martin Jady after graduating from Mountveiw Academy's postgraduate Directors course. Its intention is to produce exciting, accessible theatre of the highest quality. Martin's strengths are to direct and produce fresh, vital work that grabs an audience. His productions are contemporary and relevant, moving with a pace and style that captures the purest essence and excitement of story telling in the theatre. A good story, well told is their simple premise.
The Rondo Theatre is supported by Bath and North East Somerset Council.
