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Disco Pigs

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Description for Disco Pigs paperback. Two plays by the winner of the Best Fringe Production Award at the 1996 Dublin Festival. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 5. Weight in Grams: 86.

Disco Pigs is the award-winning play about two warped teenagers that confirmed Enda Walsh's place in the forefront of young Irish dramatists and was filmed in 2001 with Cillian Murphy and Elaine Cassidy.

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.

Disco Pigs was first performed by Corcadorca Theatre Company at the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, in September 1996, and subsequently at the 1996 Dublin Theatre Festival. It received its UK premiere at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in August ... Read more

It won the Stewart Parker Prize for the best Irish debut play and the George Devine Award in 1997.

Also included in this volume is Sucking Dublin, a fierce and uncompromising short play about a group of five individuals tormented by a rape in a claustrophobic, drug-infested Dublin.

Sucking Dublin was first performed by the Outreach Department of the Abbey Theatre at Basin Lane Youth Reach Centre in Dublin in 1997. It also played at the Samuel Beckett Theatre in Trinity College, Dublin, from 4 November 1997.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854593986
SKU
9781854593986
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Enda Walsh
Enda Walsh is an Irish playwright, born in Dublin. A former recipient of the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright and winner of numerous other awards (including four Edinburgh Fringe First awards), his works include Disco Pigs, Misterman, Chatroom and the book for Once: The Musical. He has also written for film, including the screenplay for the 2008 film ... Read more

Reviews for Disco Pigs
'A small-scale modern classic'
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