★★★★ “bold, uncompromising plays like this are what I go to the theatre for” -London City Nights

★★★★ “a gripping coming-of-age drama” -Radio Times, Play of the Week Darren (Cillian Murphy) and Sinad (Elaine. ★★★★ “an excellent revival of a one of a kind play” -Everything Theatre A 2001 Irish drama directed by Kristen Sheridan, adapted from the 1996 play of the same name by Enda Walsh. “Brilliant and electrifying…one of the best shows I’ve seen on or off-Broadway in recent months.” -Tim Teeman, The Daily Beast “Fierce…Harrowing, exhilarating” -Ben Brantley, The New York Times, Critic’s Pick Irish Rep is proud to participate in this year’s 10th Origin 1st Irish Theatre Festival with our presentations Disco Pigs and Jimmy Titanic. Marking the 20th anniversary of its explosive British debut, Disco Pigs comes to the Irish Repertory Theatre starring Evanna Lynch ( Harry Potter, My Name is Emily) and Colin Campbell ( Dublin by Lamplight, Through A Glass Darkly). Disco Pigs is an electric, disturbing and violent sprint. As night falls, and the disco and drink take hold, they spiral violently out of control.Įnda Walsh’s breathtaking breakthrough play, Disco Pigs, “didn’t so much debut at the 1997 Edinburgh Fringe, as erupt there.” (The Guardian). Two 16-year-olds share a birthday, a love, a language of their own and a uniquely violent world view. Until, on their seventeenth birthday, they discover something more.

They speak in their own language, play by their own rules, and create a world for themselves in which boundaries blur between truth and illusion. The Tara Finney Productions 20th Anniversary Productionīorn at the same time on the same day in the same hospital, Pig and Runt have been inseparable ever since.

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