In this, Campbell in particular excels as Pig, melting and hardening in turns as is required. The entire thing is wrapped up in their capacity for the mercurial, throwing themselves into the nightclubs, chippers and daydreams of the merciless Pork City with transformative ease. It’s a play that functions as both a bellow of youthful disillusionment and a tender coming of age story – a tall order for performers Colin Campbell and Evanna Lynch.įor it is they, more than anyone else in this production, who have to build the pigs’ world – vicious, defiant and fiercely protective, fuelled by drink and spontaneous violence that rumbles and erupts like a storm. The self-styled Pig and the Runt adventure around Pork City, lilting in a near-unintelligible blend of Cork slang and baby-talk that has become their own vernacular, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. Set in Cork in the mid-nineties, Disco Pigs tracks the relationship between Sinead and Darren, next door neighbours born a minute apart and irrevocably bound.
His characters are almost always trapped and aching inside some self-made prison, and his explosive first play, Disco Pigs, is no exception to this rule. They must erect complex, lyrical and traumatically insular worlds, only to hurl themselves against the very walls they’ve built and tear them down again. Photo: Alex Brenner.Įnda Walsh is a writer who expects a great deal from his actors.
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