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Emotional scences are best for teens
and pigs
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DISCO PIGS
Pleasance Theatre
PIG and Runt are two 17-year-olds who are totally absorbed
in each other. Born on the same day, they share their own language
and make up their own world together, where they live with the
emotional maturity of five-year-olds.
On their shared birthday, they hit the discos of Cork, or
‘pork city’, and embark on a night of violence, drinking
and dancing, which ends in disaster after Pig spirals out of
control.
Enda Walsh’s play, which was adapted into the 2001 film
starring Cillian Murphy, has been described as an Irish Clockwork
Orange, but this comparison does it no favours.
The made up language of Pig and Runt is far less sophisticated
and more childish than that spoken by Alex and his droogs, and
the characters themselves are children trapped in adult bodies.
The actors, Ray Bullock Jnr and Juliet Crawford, play this wide-eyed
naivety well, but it sits uneasily with the short bursts of
violence.
The emotional scenes, such as where Pig soothes Runt after a
fight in a bar leaves her shaken, are by far the most absorbing.
The final scenes of the play, where Runt glimpses a world beyond
their claustrophobic dependence and makes a bid for freedom,
are also among the best.
However, parts of the play seem strained.
The actors can’t quite evoke the other faceless characters
in the play, and the violence just doesn’t translate when
you’re only watching the protagonist fighting thin air.
As Pig says: “Without Runt, poor Pig look like the sausage
without the skin – crap.”
Without any kind of back up, the actors themselves also seem
exposed.
Until May 17
020 7609 1800
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