Ann’s Warehouse to see his play 2014 play, Ballyturk Walsh is also directing that production.) The Irish setting and context immediately summons up the lyricism and streams of consciousness of James Joyce, and Walsh is a worthy modern-era compatriot of the Dubliners author. John Haidar, director of the brilliant and electrifying 20th-anniversary production at New York City’s Irish Repertory Theatre (truly, it’s one of the best productions I have seen on or off-Broadway in recent months), calls the pair’s dizzying, mashed-up lexicon entirely their own, “a variation of a Cork dialect, but peppered with words, sounds, and phrases of their own making, along with references drawn from every corner of mid-’90s pop culture.” They are “disco pigs,” not meant as an insult, but rather as two kids who love making anarchically merry at night disco pigs in clover, if you like. They may remind you of other hapless but magnetized duos like Vladimir and Estragon, helplessly together and unimaginable apart Pig and Runt in the Cork City of 1996 waiting for their very own Godot on a dance floor, getting drunk and high, or gazing up at an endless night sky. ![]() They are fun, innocent, knowing kids, then teenagers, then young adults growing up in Cork City, in County Cork, Ireland, and utterly in their own world-a comfort zone that becomes its own dangerous and suffocating prison. ![]() It is 20 years since theatergoers first met Pig and Runt, the two motormouth characters of Enda Walsh’s breakthrough, multi-award-winning play, Disco Pigs.
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