Disco Pigs and Sucking Dublin: And, Sucking Dublin : Two Plays (Nick Hern Books)

Rating:
Summary: intense
Review: I saw this play before i read it. It is an intense view in to the lives of two characters, pig and runt. Both have just had their 17th birthday, and are determined to celebrate. We follow them on 2 nights out in cork in Ireland, they drink and fight, and yet communacate in their own made up language, like children. They are both endearingly naive, and at the same time appalingly violent. By the end of the play i was left feeling utterly washed out, i wanted to care for the characters, i did care for them, but felt utterly revulsed by what i had seen. Enda walsh avoids all the stereotypes that could run rampant in this type of scenario, and portrays a glimpse into the lives of two characters who seem both real, and absurdly exagerated. When reading the play one should bear in mind the extremely physical nature of the performance that the 2 actors depicted on the cover gave, like children playing the reenact their births, and the fights they get into extremely vividly, sexual tension oozes of the page, and i was left with enthralled and repelled by the characters. read it now, see it if you can.