Disco Pigs and Sucking Dublin (Nick Hern Books) - Softcover

Walsh, Enda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854593986 ISBN 13: 9781854593986

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 1998

Synopsis

Two plays by the winner of the Best Fringe Production Award at the 1996 Dublin Festival.

About this title

About the Author:

Enda Walsh wrote Disco Pigs (1996) for the Cork-based Corcadorca Theatre Company. There followed Misterman (1999) and Bedbound (2000). His latest play, The Small Things, is premiered by Paines Plough in January 2005.

Review:

"'If you could take the essence of adolescence, a concentrate of aggression, sexual impulse and hyperactive energy, and reconstitute it in theatrical form, it would look a lot like Disco Pigs' Herald; 'Not since The Clockwork Orange have we been so riveted by teenage creations as disturbingly magnetic as Pig and Runt.... Scintillating...' Guardian; 'Enda Walsh's stunning 70-minute play erupts like a volcano. I use the word "stunning' as near its literal meaning as possible: the play leaves you shaken, uprooted, buffeted by a sense of shock and exhilaration' Sunday Times; Disco Pigs premiered in Cork in 1996, played the Dublin Theatre Festival and had its UK premiere at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in 1997, transferring to the Bush Theatre, London. Cillian Murphy played Pig in his first appearance on stage: he has subsequently starred in movies such as 28 Days Later..., Intermission and the film version of Disco Pigs."

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1854593986
• ISBN 13: 9781854593986
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64