Disco Pigs

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Event Disco Pigs
Venue RMIT University, The Former Police Garage, Melbourne, VIC
Umbrella Event Melbourne Festival 1998
First Date 15 October 1998
Opening Date 15 October 1998
Last Date 27 October 1998
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description It hogged last year's edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning the Critic's Award and Best Actress Award, as well as The Observer Play of the Year and a trough of other accolades. Now Edna Walsh's very sexy, very violent love story of two dispossessed, disco crazed seventeen year old hits the Melbourne Festival.
Fuelled by raging hormones, stolen alcohol and scampi fries, Pig and Runt are the Disco Pigs. Inseperable since birth, they alienate themselves in the snarled syntax and truncated words of their own exclusive language. They become the self-styled Bonnie and Clyde of their native Cork, ren
Description Source Brochure
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Comedy
Tragedy
Subjects Relationships
Sex
Youth
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Cormac O'Connor Composer
Aedín Cosgrove Designer
Pat Kiernan Director
Enda Walsh Playwright
Works
Text Nationality Ireland
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Brochure Melbourne Festival 1998 guide
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 100723